Bill Murray Quotes
I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.
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There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.
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I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.
