Bill Pullman Quotes
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.
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I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed to a Facebook page. I had a brief, intense romance with Facebook. It's weirdly addictive, but anything that time-sucking is a danger for a writer who writes as slowly as I do. Now I post only occasionally and nothing very confessional. I think I'm carbon dating myself as I speak.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
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I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.
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I always love challenges and doing something that I can't quite figure out.
