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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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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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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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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However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.
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Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.
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Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
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My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.
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When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.
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My kids completely understand that I may be on a huge show or in a big movie, but most of the time, they are not terribly impressed.
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
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Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
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To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.
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I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.
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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.
