William Goldman Quotes

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

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• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Space
  • Basketball
  • Create

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Dark
  • Television

• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Respect
  • Alone
  • Singing

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • Sense

• Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Going
  • Sing
  • Make Money

• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Body

• I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Want
  • Song

• I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Night
  • Know
  • Born

• I have to have coffee in the morning.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, that’s what makes you cool.

  

  La La Anthony
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Years

• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Know
  • Look
  • Young

• There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

  

  William Goldman
  • People
  • Ready
  • Dies