Joseph Williams Quotes

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

Joseph Williams

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• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Mind
  • End
  • Place

• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Beautiful
  • Old
  • River

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • See

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Time
  • Luck
  • Right Time

• I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Fast

• GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Geography

• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Destination

• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Danger
  • Divorce
  • Independence

• Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Done
  • Past

• The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

  

  Jessica Bird
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Career

• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Portraying this character Diwata has really given me an opportunity to get in touch with that side of myself, which I haven't been for a few years. And I do know what it's like to be different from people around you and not fit into the prototypical mold of what America sort of thinks a girl "should be."

  

  Sarah Steele
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic livelihood as women in other parts of the world. But the continuum is the same. The pressures on women to fit into a certain image of a good Muslim girl is the same. The controls and rules are the same, but there are different degrees of it. So, in America, a father will threaten a daughter that he will disown her if she marries the American boyfriend and in Pakistan she faces acid thrown on her face. The power dynamic is the same, it just expresses itself differently.

  

  Asra Nomani
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Every Night

• You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

  

  Joseph Williams
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Helping