Bill Callahan Quotes
I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
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This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
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Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.
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Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.
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“Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality.”
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We're lucky to get out of here with a win.
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I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
