Bil Keane Quotes
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
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Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
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I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.
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I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
