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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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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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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The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
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I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
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One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.
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I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.
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We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
