William Golding Quotes
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I always played to win.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.
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My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.
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My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
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The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
