William Goldman Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
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XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
