Ed Murray Quotes
Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.
When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.
Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.
The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.
Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle. Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels. Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand That Santa Claus is a black man.
I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.
Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else.
London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."
I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.
I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.
I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical figure at all.
I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.
There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.
I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.
I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.
Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.
As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.
I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.
But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.
Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a follower of no one.
I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom.
I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.
When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists.
I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.
I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.
My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.
I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.
I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.
New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.
Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription.
I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.
My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.
Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.
I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.