Tad Williams Quotes
Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
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I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
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I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Enemies of Syria are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.
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Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.
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For I hate, yet love thee, so,That, whichever thing I show,The plain truth will seem to beA constrained hyperbole,And the passion to proceedMore from a mistress than a weed.
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When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything.
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You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.
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The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.
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Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.
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Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.
