William Beckett Quotes
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
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I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,Daughter of Elysium!Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancingGoddess, to thy shrine we come.Thy sweet magic brings togetherWhat stern Custom spreads afar;All men become brothersWhere thy happy wing-beats are.
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One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.
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I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
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I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.
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States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
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I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.
