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.

Bill Pullman

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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.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
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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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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

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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.

  

  Jack Finney
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• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
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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.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
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• Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
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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.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Will

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • 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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• I feel the hot winds of karma driving me. Nevertheless I remain here. My training was correct: I must not shrink from the clear white light, for if I do, I will once more re-enter the cycle of birth and death, never knowing freedom, never obtaining release. The veil of maya will fall once more.

  

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• When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

  

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  • First
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• NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

  

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  • Freedom
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• Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

  

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  • Life
  • Nice
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• Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

  

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  • Knowledge
  • Picture

• 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.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Death
  • Dad