Venus Williams Quotes
No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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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 let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
