Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
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I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
