William Goldman Quotes
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.
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He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
