William Goldman Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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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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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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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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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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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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I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, we’re not the best communicators when it comes to talking to the women in our lives. I know I’m not – but I’m much better when I have a pen and paper in my hand.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?
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To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
