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William Styron Quotes

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1925

Topics

Writing Face Hell

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

Path Me Drama Class Taken Put

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

John W. Thompson

End Cloud Connection Always Web Who

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

Life Safety Chaos Find Academic

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

Love People Generation Philosophy

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

Women Art Men People World Thought

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

Yourself Building Start You Lose

I did a couple of sketch shows with Mike Palin and Terry Jones... and then I got hired by Granada to do a weekly topical show.

Sketch Weekly Got Show Did Then

Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires.

Diane Hendricks

Plan Being Wanted Did Billionaires

All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as a movie is a terrible idea. 'The Lego Movie' sounds like a terrible idea.

Christopher Miller

Chance Expectations Doing Jump Done

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

Angel Dark First Real Her Season

In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.

People Characters Hijacking

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Learning People You Wiser Never Out

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