Tad Williams Quotes
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I still have a young attitude.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Sex is where you find it. I say take it and enjoy it. Give and receive freely, without fear, without guilt and without contractual obligations.
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
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I'm a trudger.
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I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school.
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The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
