Tad Williams Quotes
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go.
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I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
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Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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I still come closest to success with drawing.
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Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
