Amy Williams Quotes
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.
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Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
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Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
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It's all about making the other person feel good.
