Bill Toomey Quotes
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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There is no one true church.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The course of development
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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
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The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.
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The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.
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Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
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One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
