William Landay Quotes
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
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When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
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I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.
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It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
