Bill Pullman Quotes
Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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We used to have a tax in this country called the Estate Tax, which was very popular, because it's a tax on very, very, very rich fucks who die. And people thought, 'That's a good person to tax.' And that is a good person to tax! Because rich fucks who die should give away their money, or else they give it to their ne'er-do-well kid who becomes Uday Hussein.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
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Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.
