William Stephenson Quotes
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Any job is wonderful.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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Decadence is wonderful.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.
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It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.
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It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
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I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they're very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful.
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Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.
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It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
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New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.
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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
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The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
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I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more.
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This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
