William Goldman Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I feel like if you play basketbal, you should want to improve all the time. You should never feel like you don't need to improve.
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Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
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A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
