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.
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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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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
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I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.
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Farming is a poor way to make a living, at least around here, because you have to go into factory farming to make it pay. It is the best hobby there is—only 'hobby' is too little a word. The best way of life. Not just because you learn forty different trades, and not just because you follow the seasons, but because you get to spend your whole life producing a single work of art. That is, the farm itself.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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As far as romancing and catering to the women, I'm definitely here for all that.
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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.
