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 don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
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Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
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I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
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People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
