Murray Head Quotes
My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.
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The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
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I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
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My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.
