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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Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
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I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
