William Pickens Quotes
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.
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I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
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I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.
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No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
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Living together is an art.
