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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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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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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It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
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Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.
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Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.
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I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
