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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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.
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One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
