Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
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Kindness and love open the doors to one's Soul.
