Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
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I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
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Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
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I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.
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Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.
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You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.
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One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
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I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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Lost Souls fight nature. Spiritual Souls embrace nature.