Treat Williams Quotes
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don't tally up on your record, so you don't necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
