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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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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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
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I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
