Niall Williams Quotes
Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I love to write.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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I am very much a Republican.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
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When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
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Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
