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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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because in the U.K., we don't - we think it's all a bit vulgar, you know, doing Christmas or cashing in on Christmas. And there's a word we have for it, which is naff. And it's not exactly uncool. It really sort of means kind of vulgar and a bit - not very stylish.
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Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
