Bill Mumy Quotes
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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All of man's artefacts, whether hardware or software, whether bulldozers or laws of chemistry, are alike linguistic in structure and intent. (p. 227)
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
