Willard Gaylin Quotes
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.
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If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.
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The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
