William H. Macy Quotes
Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never get another chance. And they're terrified to get in the cutting room and not be happy. So they just keep shooting.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I do not cook.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
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We have people who were actually CSIs on set CSI: Miami, so definitely I have learned a lot just having them around.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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Getting fan mail from Brazil is kind of funny.
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Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never get another chance. And they're terrified to get in the cutting room and not be happy. So they just keep shooting.
