Bill Callahan Quotes

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

Bill Callahan

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Know

• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Need

• Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Important
  • Emotional

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Courage
  • Ambition

• The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Religion

• Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Why
  • Will
  • Debt

• I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Playing
  • Role
  • Then

• No dream is ever chased alone.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Ever

• I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Compare

• I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough money to sustain my life, I worked as a male nanny, I waited tables and did what I had to, to keep doing theater and acting.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Life
  • Money

• My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • My Life
  • Believing
  • Testament

• The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • Book
  • Color
  • Revolution

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• I have no intention of disowning my record as a member of the McGuinty government.

  

  Kathleen Wynne

• Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

  

  Bill Callahan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Song