William Goldman Quotes
You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.
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By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.
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I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.
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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
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I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.
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You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.
