William Goldman Quotes
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
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I really love visiting schools - in fact, that's my favorite part of being an author now - even though I still get stage fright! When I visit schools, I know I'm going to be talking to some kids who don't like to read.
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Speech in York (2 June 1973), quoted in The Times (4 June 1973), p. 2.
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He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
