Billy Magnussen Quotes
That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.
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God knows Ed Rendell can't pay for everything he promised. We're going to have to make some tough decisions.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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(about people's image of him) 'I think that has a lot to do with the expression that's on my face. People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit. (laughs) source
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That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
