W. E. B. Griffin (William Edmund Butterworth III) Quotes
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
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My whole life has been one theme of self-sacrifice for my investors.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
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Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
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I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
