Walter Jon Williams Quotes
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only not work for the next project, they will ruin it.
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
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Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
