William Styron Quotes
The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, 'Chill out, man. That's out of line.'
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
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Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.
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I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.
