William P. Young Quotes
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
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I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
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Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.
