Bill Callahan Quotes
I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.
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The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
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I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
