William H. Macy Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.
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I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
