William Golding Quotes
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
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I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
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Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality.
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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
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Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!
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Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
