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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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'
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If it never rained, nothing would grow.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.