Tad Williams Quotes
There are no promises in life, Sludig, but it seems to me smarter to take fewer chances.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
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There are no promises in life, Sludig, but it seems to me smarter to take fewer chances.
