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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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 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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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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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.
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Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
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Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
