Tad Williams Quotes
Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.'
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.'
