George Murray Quotes
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I've directed independent film.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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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.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
