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People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
RICKY WILLIAMS
One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking ab...
RICKY WILLIAMS
I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearanc...
RICKY WILLIAMS
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the que...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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
I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of be...
ROBIN WILLIAMS
I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
ROBIN WILLIAMS