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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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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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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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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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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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
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Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
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Preparation starts after the game before.
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My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.
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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.
