George Murray Quotes

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

George Murray

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mirror

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Best

• People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • High
  • Myself

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Past
  • Religion

• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Not Knowing

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • College
  • Young
  • Fans

• I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Help
  • Dream

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

  

  Mehcad Brooks
  • Work
  • Law

• The point of art is to emphasize some elements at the expense of others.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Art

• Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Human Nature
  • Offence

• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Proud
  • Struggle
  • Anxiety

• I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

  

  George Murray
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety