William Landay Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.
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Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.
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I think the producers or whoever's doing the show are tripping so hard. They must be on acid. They live in this, like, weird grass mound and there's this 'sun' in the sky with this little baby's face that's just, like, bleaaargh-aarghagh. It's just so totally insane. It's such an acid thing, man. For kids!
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Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
