R. M. Williams Quotes
More than half of the world’s population, struggle for food – but we expect privilege.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
-
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
-
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
-
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
-
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
-
We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
-
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
-
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
-
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
-
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
-
See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
-
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
-
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
-
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
-
When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
-
I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
-
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
-
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
-
A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
-
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
-
What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
-
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
-
More than half of the world’s population, struggle for food – but we expect privilege.
