Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.
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You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
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In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.
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I don't like to try strange foods. I like to explore different foods, but if you ask me to eat crocodile or frogs... I'm like no. That's where I draw the line.
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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
