William Goldman Quotes
Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.William Goldman
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
Halle Berry -
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone -
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
Malcolm Turnbull -
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Oliver North -
A teacher should have a creative mind.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
Pat Nixon -
For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
Daniel Barenboim -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
Paloma Faith -
We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
Vaclav Klaus -
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
Gary Johnson
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
Lady Gaga -
I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
Marianne Elliott -
The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
Ilya Ilyin -
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
Marianne Williamson -
You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
Robert Wise -
Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
William Goldman