C. K. Williams Quotes
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.
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If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
