William Appleman Williams Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
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Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
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In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.
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Even the poor should give something to charity.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
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Brian and I will vote for some kind of smoking ordinance while Jack is against it.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
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As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.
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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
