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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• Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

  

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• My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

  

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• For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

  

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• What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

  

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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