Tad Williams Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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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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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.
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As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.
