William Goldman Quotes
You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - a rabbit foot - which actually kind of disgusts me now.
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An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner . . . The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.
