William Goldman Quotes
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
William Goldman
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Walter Pater
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
Olivia Wilde
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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.
Gary Wolf
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo
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I'm currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it's all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.
Krysten Ritter
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Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.
Charles Negre
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I'm a better actor because I'm a mother, I think.
Kristin Lehman
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In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.
Piyush Goyal
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
William Goldman
