William Goldman Quotes
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
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It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.
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Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
