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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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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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Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.
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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
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The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
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We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.
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I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
