Brad Williams Quotes

Yeah, people do need to realize that just because they've seen me perform for an hour does not mean that we are now close.

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Country
  • Understanding

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Never
  • Played

• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Theater

• I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Anything

• I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Games
  • Adventure
  • Characters

• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Sometimes
  • Goal
  • Grit

• There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Important
  • Media

• I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Person
  • Pride
  • Shame

• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Past
  • Enough

• Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Mood

• There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Lead

• You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Life
  • Work
  • House

• It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

  

  Doris Day
  • Like
  • Body
  • Automobile

• One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Cynicism

• Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

  

  Eugenie de Guerin
  • People
  • Character
  • Soul

• Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

  

  Nick Blaemire
  • Moments
  • Inspired
  • Able

• For a Tamil debut, I wanted to make sure the script is the right one. We are hopeful 'Bramhotsavam' will be that film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Right
  • Will

• To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Realize

• Yeah, people do need to realize that just because they've seen me perform for an hour does not mean that we are now close.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Realize
  • Perform
  • Close