Joy Williams Quotes
Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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The characteristics of Sadhuguna, Satwaguna, and peace and all such qualities, come from non-attachment. When Buddhi becomes steady, it is called Satwaguna. Sat (truth) is like letters engraved in stone. The talk of the worldly is like letters engraved on a chalk slab.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Women's tennis has been all over the place the last few years and when you throw in injuries, it's taken on even more of a wild-card dimension.
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I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.
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Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.
