William Goldman Quotes
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
Jackson Rathbone -
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp -
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran -
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins -
People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
Felix Dennis
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
Karan Mahajan -
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
Warren Farrell -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty -
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne -
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
Ian Smith -
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams -
I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
Paloma Elsesser -
I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
Ranbir Kapoor -
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson -
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Ralph Peters
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I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
Rachael Yamagata -
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
Charles Hartshorne -
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
Lady Gaga -
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Warren Adler -
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Iggy Azalea -
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
William Goldman