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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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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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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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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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.
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When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.
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I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.
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To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
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I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.
