William H. Macy Quotes
I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
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Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
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I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
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New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.
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I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.
