Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
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Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
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Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.
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My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.
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Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
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One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.
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You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.
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When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
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You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
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I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.
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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
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The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
