William Goldman Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski -
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'
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Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
