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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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 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 come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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Different parents have different standards for their children.
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In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
