Treat Williams Quotes
For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.
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I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.
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Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.
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For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.
