Roy H. Williams Quotes
Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
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Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.
