William Golding Quotes
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
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When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
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I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
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Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
