Walter Jon Williams Quotes

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

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• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • Therapy

• I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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  • Business

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

  

  Vera Wang
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  • Better

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

  

  Aaliyah
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• There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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  • Same
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• My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest.

  

  Corey Hawkins

• We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

  

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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  • Monotony

• I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
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• One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
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• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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