R. M. Williams Quotes
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.
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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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Mother was born about 1880, and died in 1984 at the age of 103.
