Bill Paxton Quotes
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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My mom and I are very close.
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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We've become a plastic society.
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I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.