Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
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I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
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I'm a Taurus; I need a home.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
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The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail.
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Animals were given freedom. Mankind took it away.
