Niall Williams Quotes
Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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I have matured a lot.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
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There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
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My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
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Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.
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People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
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The things I could have done had Hollywood been more open? I don't dwell on coulda-woulda-shoulda. Because, hey, I've had a great career.
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Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.
