Claude Williams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
-
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
-
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
-
A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
-
I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
-
Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
-
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
-
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
-
I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
-
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
-
I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
-
I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.
-
There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'
-
From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.
-
So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
-
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
-
I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.
-
I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
-
In the middle of the dream I said to myself 'press pause' and in the dream I said I'm going to write this down. But I was so frightened to get out of bed and write it down that I would miss the rest of the story. And I had to know what happens. And I pressed play. When I finished there was a knowing that I would never forget this. I literally had a smile. There was a knowing in my sleep. And here I am. I was actually reading it to my dogs yesterday. I still find it quite incredible.
-
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
-
They tried to put me at tight end once, but I would end up just blocking people when they were actually trying to throw the ball to me. I was probably in middle school. It just didn't stick. Except on running plays.
-
I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.
