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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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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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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A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.
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W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
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I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
