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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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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 end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.
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First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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They’ll never know about this decision. They’ll never know how much their friendship meant to me. But I’ll know, and that’s enough.
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
