William P. Young Quotes
The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.
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With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
