William Murchison Quotes
This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
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I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.
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I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
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The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.
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There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.
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I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.
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I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
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It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?
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British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.
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This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.
