William Golding Quotes
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
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My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.
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Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
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For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece that men wear every day, and it's something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it's on the street or going to an awards ceremony.
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It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
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I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.
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It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.
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If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
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I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.
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For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.
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You'll get back to where you came from.
