Bill Macy Quotes
In a strange way, we go to a play to be entertained, but if there is any kind of identification, we either reaffirm our beliefs, or we change.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.
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There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
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The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.
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When we read what Goethe says about men we are ashamed of what we have said; when we read what he says about painting and statues we are ashamed of what Goethe has said.
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I think, probably, my best asset would probably be my all round game.
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In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.
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In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
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Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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In a strange way, we go to a play to be entertained, but if there is any kind of identification, we either reaffirm our beliefs, or we change.
