C. K. Williams Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.
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Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
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The puppets in 'Dark Crystal' were very complicated, and some quite unpleasant. In that movie, I think we got into areas a bit too realistic.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
