Mike Murdock Quotes
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
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You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.
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Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
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As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
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A library is a growing organism.
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Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
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I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.
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It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.
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'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.
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The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.
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Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.
