Bill Pullman Quotes
I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.
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Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
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I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
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I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
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North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.
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The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
