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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I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.
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The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.
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I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
