Walter Jon Williams Quotes
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
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Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be told this, because in today's world, just doing something is not enough. You've got to tell about it, too. If you've done something and haven't told about it, it's as good as if you hadn't done it at all.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
