Bill Crawford Quotes
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.
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Somewhere back at the beginning I was chosen to be Jester, and there is only one Jester at a time in Diaspar. Most people think that is one too many.
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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
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I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
