Bill Pullman Quotes
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.
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Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.
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I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
