Bill Pullman Quotes
As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
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The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.
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The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.
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Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.
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As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art.
