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Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what? I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.
William Goldman
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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
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Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
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You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
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Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over.
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There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
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True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
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