William Golding Quotes
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
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The explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.
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The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
