William H. Macy Quotes
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I don't study; I create.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
