William Goldman Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
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When you surprise yourself and you can't remember what the take felt like, then something transformative has happened.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
