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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There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
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My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
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Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
