Claude Williams Quotes
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
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By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.
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While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
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I'd make a bad preacher.
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I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.
