Tad Williams Quotes
'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
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People take things so seriously.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.
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People are identifying not only with the trans movement, but also the Pfefferman family. What I am noticing is people are coming up on the street and talking about their life and their family, and they say, 'Your family is just like mine.'
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The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.
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Success can't be forced.
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I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
