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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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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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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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls
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I remember asking my dad, "Why didn't you ever move to the States? You probably could have made a lot more money." My dad said, "Because I have an obligation to give back." I always admired him for that.
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It was a revelation as important as any other in its way – that expert men love their subject. Show them interest, show them fascination, and they see themselves reflected – and then they will move the world for you.
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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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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.
