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.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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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.
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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.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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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.
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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.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.
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Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
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I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
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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.
