William James Quotes
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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There are times when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really shy, and I don't feel like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that's crippling me.
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
