Roberta Williams Quotes
I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.
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Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
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We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.
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I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating.
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I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.
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For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.
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I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and I said, "Well, you've got to understand that when you sell a TV pilot, imagine if you turned in the best issue of Batman ever, and DC was like, 'Well we love this, but we can't publish it because we have to publish this other thing by this other person." The odds are really long on getting anything made, so if you come from comics and you're still making a living in comics, that really helps because you're not desperate for someone's permission to write for a living.
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It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
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I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.
