Bill Pullman Quotes
You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.
Quotes to Explore
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
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I was a dummy in school.
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Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
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You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.
