Bill Macy Quotes
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Love is an interesting thing.
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I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
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It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.
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And as I’ve said elsewhere, a free press helps make a nation stronger and more successful, and it makes us leaders more effective because it demands greater accountability.
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I am not in competition with anybody; I just want to be productive.
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If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.
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Some Saturday mornings, as soon as the mountains had bottled up the last cheerful sound of Bob and the truck, I, feeling like a cross between a boll weevil and a slut, took a large cup of hot coffee, a hot-water bottle, a cigarette and a magazine and WENT BACK TO BED. Then, from six-thirty until nine or so, I luxuriated in breaking the old mountain tradition that a decent woman is in bed only between the hours of seven pm and four am unless she is in labor or dead.
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You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.
