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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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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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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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.
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It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
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I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.
