Tad Williams Quotes
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
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'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake
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And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
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I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion-the two cannot live together.
