Bill Callahan Quotes
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I always played to win.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
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I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.
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When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
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James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
