Bill Huizenga Quotes
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.
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I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.
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Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
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You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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Hatred was a plant of slow growth.
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Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.
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I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.
