Bill Pullman Quotes
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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The GOP's insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.
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The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.
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I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you're still dead. For that much money I'd want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash.
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It animal research is immoral even if it's essential.
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The post-war 'publish or perish' tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. ... One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
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You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.
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I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.
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Unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.
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Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.
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Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
