Tad Williams Quotes
Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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The repercussions of the coup on nascent democracies in the Arab world will be destructive. People may soon lose faith in the democratic process, paving the way for the revival of extremist groups...The coup serves to strengthen the radicals, interrupting the course of peaceful change.
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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
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The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.
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Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
