Bill Pullman Quotes
I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I love life because what more is there?
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Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.
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Round numbers are always false.
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Customers are extremely savvy. They don't want to pay more.
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There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
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I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.
