William H. Macy Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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The subject says 'I see first lots of things which dance - then everything becomes gradually connected'.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.
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It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.
