William Goldman Quotes
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
