William Landay Quotes
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
Quotes to Explore
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.
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But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
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Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
