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.
Patrick Leahy -
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.
Barbra Streisand -
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
Malcolm de Chazal -
Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
Ian Rankin
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
Manoj Bhargava -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
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.
Ice Cube -
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!
Barbara Mandrell -
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schreiner -
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
T.I.
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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.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Walter Kirn -
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig -
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz -
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh -
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.
Xavier Dolan
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
Taylor Mali -
I try to do different things. My main goal is to choose roles where I won't repeat myself or where I will not be doing the same role over and over. I try to do a villain, the best friend to the lead, and then a lead. I try to vary it up because if I don't, I will get bored.
Ana Layevska -
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.
Billy Horschel -
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
James Salter -
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
Walter Jon Williams