William Green Quotes
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
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Symbols have a reach and a roundness that goes beyond their literal and practical meaning. They are the rich concepts under which the mind gathers many particulars into one name, and many instances into one general induction.
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(We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...
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Uh? They don't like me over here, either.
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
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Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!
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I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.
