William Golding Quotes
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
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My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
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That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
