Murray Bartlett Quotes
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
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Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.
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I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
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I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked, would I mind being an escort for an older woman? I told them I don't do that kind of work, but then they said it was Julia Child, and I said I'd be right there.
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I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.
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To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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I'm addicted to travel.
