William Goldman Quotes
Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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You have enough people against you... be for yourself.
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Colorado's home for me.
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I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film.
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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
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Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
