Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
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I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.
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When I think of something that really is me, that I'm proud of, is honestly, I would have to say, I've never sold my soul along the way... All those things, you're selling your soul, and I don't think I have.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.
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Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
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Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.
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I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than food! There's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than there's been in the entire history of humanity! It's grotesque!
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It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"
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When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
