William Goldman Quotes
You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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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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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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I'm a normal guy.
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There's no people like show people.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.
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There are no shortcuts to success.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
