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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myster...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentra...
SERENA WILLIAMS Tennis just a game, family is forever.
SERENA WILLIAMS I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
SERENA WILLIAMS I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second f...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I love kids, but they are a tough audience.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was...
ROBIN WILLIAMS When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
ROBIN WILLIAMS A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Perhaps we are guilty of settling in to too comfortable a journalistic pattern, and perhaps this tragedy did serve as a reminder that this is what we do. I think too many people had forgotten that. There is a reason we show up after awful events. We really were the viewers' advocates on this.

Brian Williams

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