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William T. Vollmann Quotes

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

William T. Vollmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1959

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Father Heart Respect Me Voting Duty

I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.

Music People Me Process React Will

I never want to lose touch with reality. I won't push $100 candles just because. I realized that I could create a hub of positivity and affirmation.

Reality Push Lose Create Want Never

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Time Myself Experience Me Long Own

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Me Story Help You Actor Lucky

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Work Art Design Nothing Way Ever

Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune.

Man Hill Never Theme Room Seem

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

World Same Answers Philosophers

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.

Technology Best People Problems Will

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

Home Myself Together Thinking Artist

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Tyrants Where Slaves

I can jump high; I can dunk - nobody really believes that I can.

Christian Pulisic

I Can Nobody Jump High Dunk Really

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

William Shatner

Myself Know Clearly Anything Only

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