Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
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Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.
