William H. Macy Quotes
Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
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There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.
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Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.
