William Feather Quotes
It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.
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I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."
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With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.
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It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.
