William Goldman Quotes
If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
Quotes to Explore
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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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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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
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I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
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Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
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We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.
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I have more nuclear physicists living in my district than in any other district.
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If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
