William Goldman Quotes
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I can do whatever I want.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
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One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
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Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
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I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'
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He's a character, ... So I take his parameters and don't infuse my issues or parameters one way or the other. He's a guy that is functioning drunk. He has what they call a traveling buzz. He might step out and have a short one at noon, but he never gets falling-down drunk.
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
