Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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We always trend set.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
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There is quite a lot of news coming out of Japan, which I think is putting the yen under some weakness.
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Travel the road of love... and you will never be lost.
