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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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
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There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
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Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
