William Styron Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I came to Miami for the first time during the winter, and naturally, I fell in love with the weather.
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We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
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The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
