Walter Jon Williams Quotes

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

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• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Story
  • Hero
  • Look

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • Great
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Self
  • Ego
  • Autobiography

• When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Think
  • Always
  • Very

• I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Truth
  • Religion

• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • House
  • Crime
  • White

• Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Interesting
  • Animals
  • Cows

• I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Work
  • History

• The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Mind
  • High
  • Peace

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Think
  • Career
  • Want

• I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Reason

• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Man
  • Light

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Desire
  • Responsibility
  • Pain

• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Man
  • Dangerous
  • Creature

• If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

  

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