Walter Jon Williams Quotes
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
Gaspard Ulliel -
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel -
The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
Dan Deacon -
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
P. J. Harvey -
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
T. Boone Pickens -
Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
Walton Goggins
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
Bayard Taylor -
You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
Larry Brown -
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo -
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
Damien Hirst
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet -
We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
Sally Field -
My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
Nathan Kress -
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
Karel Capek -
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden
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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
Joe Jamail -
Sukumar comes from a very different school of working style. He never shoots with set dialogues and scenes. Most of it is improvised on the spot. He'd tell me, 'Rakul, if this is your character, how would you behave? Show me.'
Rakul Preet Singh -
You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
Astley Cooper -
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
Walter Jon Williams