William Goldman Quotes
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They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.
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I live life what I consider to be normal.
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I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
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I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
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Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
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'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.
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When you're really young, you tend to fall in love with characters. If you start seeing the same type of character everywhere and realize that they don't look like you, or they don't speak like you, you start wanting to change who you are. That's something that I did when I was a young kid.
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I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
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People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.
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Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
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One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
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You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.
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I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
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My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.
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I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
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My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
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The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
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The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
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Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.
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Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
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God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
