William Landay Quotes
Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. ... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. ... For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
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I want the audience to walk out of the theater feeling they got their money's worth. Every movie that I enjoy, I leave the theater with something to take with me.
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Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself. You are evil.
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Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.
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My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
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Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.
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I guess I'm attracted to things that are fun. I guess what is fun about this role in 'Suburgatory' is that there's a lot of room to play around.
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Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
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If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
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The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
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I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
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I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
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Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.
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When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.
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Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.
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Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.
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It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
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Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you
