William Goldman Quotes
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.
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The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.
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We are a people whom Allah gave might and glory to through Islam, so we will never seek glory through anything else.
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If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original
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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
