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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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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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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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.
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We only part to meet again.
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Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?
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We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
