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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#comedy #could #doing #ensemble #felt

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#actor #because #famous #get #going

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#beautiful thing #city #map #most #new

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model? ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#besides #building #buildings #built #drawings

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#away #cannot #like #ourselves #really

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dams #even #give #never #never give up

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#apparently #original #russian #settlers #were

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#i #job #plays #scenes #work

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#attracted #easy #how #say #something