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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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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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it.
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I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.
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Politicians never say never to anything.
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'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.
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We all have a role to play. Don't despair at your own talents... Don't try to be better than anybody else. Just try to be better than yourself.
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...in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
