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 started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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I don't believe in sexual love.
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Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
