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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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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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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I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.
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We believe we are ready to buy heavily on the European and US markets, and we have been considering a number of large facilities that we are planning to buy.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
