Walter Jon Williams Quotes

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Walter Jon Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1953

Topics

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I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

John Curran

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I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.

Stephen Fincher

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Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Rory Kinnear

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The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role models that were blokey that were men. Everybody was flamboyant and camp, and I remember going, 'That's not me, so even though I think I am gay, I don't think I fit into this world.'

Russell Tovey

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I love 'Flashdance.' I thought it was so cool!

Rutina Wesley

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We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.

Mike Rogers

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Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

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The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

Dick Wolf

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No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, 'God, I don't want to fight no more. I'm tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting's not going to get me there.'

Deontay Wilder

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The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

Douglas Feith

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You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Chuck Hagel

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