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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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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 went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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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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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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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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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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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've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.
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It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.
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I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
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I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
