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.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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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.
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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.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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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.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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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.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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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.
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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.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
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My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
