William Landay Quotes
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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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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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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've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
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Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.
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In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.
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As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
