Treat Williams Quotes
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
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I never had a long-term plan.
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I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
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A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.
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If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
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We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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I couldnt imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.
