Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
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Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.
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You can't listen to the news. You have to go with the facts. You need to use a logical approach and have the discipline to apply it. You must be able to control your emotions.
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There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
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I had a difficult period in my life, so I stayed in the village, drew and painted.
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I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.
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Kindness is not an act. It’s a lifestyle.
