Tad Williams Quotes
'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?
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I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
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I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.
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What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
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Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
