William Goldman Quotes

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

William Goldman

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• I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.

  

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• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

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• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

  

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• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  

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• Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

  

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• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

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• They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

  

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• Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

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• I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

  

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• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

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• I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

  

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

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• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

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• I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

  

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• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

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• The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

  

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  

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• “Busy yourself with what is pleasing to Allah, or Satan will busy you with what displeases Him.”

  

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• You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

  

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• Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

  

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• I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

  

  William Goldman
  • Might
  • Busy
  • Frenzy