William Golding Quotes
One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I am pretty anal about not crazy Googling myself, and searching. I am sure there are all kinds of horrible things being said that I am not aware of.
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I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.
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One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
