William Golding Quotes
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
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The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
