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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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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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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Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
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I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
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Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
