Chic Murray (Charles Thomas McKinnon "Chic" Murray) Quotes
I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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'That man is … odd,' I dared say to William.'He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.'
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I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.
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It's a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it's sort of unreal in a sense.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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Sometimes, I am lucky because all factors are combined - composition, light, emotion - and sometimes not. Most of the time, I must be patient and wait.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.
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But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
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I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.
