Murray Walker Quotes
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
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I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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Call me irresponsibleYes, I'm unreliableBut it's undeniably trueThat I'm irresponsibly mad for you.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it's difficult. There's part of you that doesn't want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you're surrendering.
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.
