George Murray Quotes

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

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• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

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• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

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• You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

  

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• As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

  

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• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  

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• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

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• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  

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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

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• My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.

  

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• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

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• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

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• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

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• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  

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• My dad was very rough with us.

  

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• Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

  

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• In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion, between the respective values of the different values of the different metals in the coin, the value of the most precious metal regulates the value of the whole coin.

  

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• Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

  

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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

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• I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

  

  George Murray
  • Different