William Goldman Quotes
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.
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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
