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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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
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Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
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I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
