Niall Williams Quotes
You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.
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I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.
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All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.
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“The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude.”
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You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.
