George Murray Quotes
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
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Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.
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Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
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If I could play any superhero... my favorite superhero is Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield is wonderful at doing it to the point that I don't think I should play it.
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I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.
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To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.
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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.
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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
