Bill Irwin Quotes

We used to have a photo of me in full clown makeup taken when my son was 5. And when he was 17 or 18, he said, 'Yeah, that thing used to scare me. I hated that photo.' So it is scary; clowning is scary to people.

Bill Irwin

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'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

Jim Rash

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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!

John Burroughs

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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Maya Lin

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I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.

John Niven

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In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

John Niven

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For me, it's important to have a team and coach and manager that I know, and they know me, so they are not coming to me with everything.

Angelique Kerber

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I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

Metta World Peace

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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Robert Ballard

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My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

Rob Lowe

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If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

Josh Tillman

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The reason I don't make more movies is because it's really hard to find ideas that I go, 'Yeah, I could spend two years of my life doing this.' Mostly what I do is say no to movies because I go, 'Maybe I would see that, but I don't think I could spend two years on it. I'd go nuts.'

Jonathan Mostow

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