R. M. Williams Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
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I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
