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My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.

Bill Murray

Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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Errors Otherwise Thinking
The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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Better Keep Needs Things
Be available for life to happen.
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Available Happens Life
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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Country People Thinking
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
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Acting Actors Thinking
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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Believe Christmas Essence
I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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Bars Guy Want
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Automatic Needs Vacation
All parties are good.
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Good Party
Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you.
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Advice Boys Matter Some
The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
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Home Reminding Way Yourself
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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Father Lonely Mother
I’m over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I’ve seen it.
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Acting Ambition Desire
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
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Couple Kids Kitchen
We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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Cherries Ice Cream Syrup
Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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Life Obligation Score
I would jump into the middle of the street and say, “excuse me, there’s a Mercedes that’s got to get through here.” And I would push people out of the way, “get out of the way! Let him through!” Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, “whack” and you just jump into it.
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Cars People Stuff
When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that’s why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn’t fall asleep. That gift I have still.
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Baseball Fall Kids
If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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Energy Fun People
I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
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Lucky Needs Want
I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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Being Different Everbody Girl Mean
I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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Book Dog Real
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Crash Knows People
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Anything Artist Hard
Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Fields Shows Standards
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.
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Home Month Mustache
I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
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Eye Legs Potatoes

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.

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