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Bill Mumy Quotes

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1954

Topics

Me Mom Television Old Inside Years

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Life Hero Impossible Know Nothing

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

Life School Succeed Generation Wheel

I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

Words Feel Emotions Possible Try

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

Child People Me Song Try Opera

I hate doing photo shoots.

Hate Doing Photo Photo Shoots Shoots

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Soul You Connection Play Know Jazz

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Heart Decision Mind Me You Know

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Michael Moorcock

Work Think You Find Pictures Write

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

Smart Reading Media Hypocrisy I Can

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Alone Walk People Strong Information

Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?

Colson Whitehead

People World Book End You Rules

Bobby Roode is amazing.

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