Walter Murch Quotes
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	To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.   
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	My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.   
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	The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.   
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	All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.   
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	I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.   
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	All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.   
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	Women drive box office.   
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	I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.   
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	When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.   
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	I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.   
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	Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.   
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	The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.   
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	I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.   
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	I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.   
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	A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.   
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	My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.   
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	I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.   
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	I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.   
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	Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.   
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	An artist's sphere of influence is the world.   
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	I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.   
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	It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.   
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	Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					