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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When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.
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I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
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At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’ (Hays translation)
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'The Whale' was in the category of so-called serious music, and yet it brings together a wide series of musical styles. It was influenced by people such as The Beatles, the spirit of the times, and I think 'The Whale' certainly had a pop element to it.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
