William Franklin Beedle Jr. (William Holden) Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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I feel it's so easy to condemn this country the United States; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.
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When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
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Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
