Tad Williams Quotes
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
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When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'
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I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.
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When I visited my family in Virginia, I tracked down my seventh-grade best friend and sat in TGI Fridays near a mall for hours, laughing while her daughter took insane-looking selfies on my phone.
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How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.
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As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.
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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.
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He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
