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.Anthony Douglas Williams
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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.
Camilla Lackberg -
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans -
The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
Eddie Marsan -
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.
Adam Grant -
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Larry Hagman -
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.
Zeljko Ivanek
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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.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
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.
Kate Moss -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
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.
Tamae Watanabe -
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
Rachel Kushner -
If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
Ian Mckellen
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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.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
W. H. Auden -
'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
Anne Rice -
I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.
Elizabeth Banks
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Marriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth Taylor -
I've been looking for a woman to save my lifeNot to beg or to borrowA woman with the feeling of losing once or twice.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Literature is for the sake of humanity.
Cynthia Ozick -
For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
Anthony Douglas Williams