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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The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
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I love dogs because they're so adaptable.
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it's always been floating up there, but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.
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My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
