William Gibson Quotes
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
Quotes to Explore
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I can do whatever I want.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
