Bill Callahan Quotes
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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He who is contented is rich.
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
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Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
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Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
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I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. This picture will be called 'The Blue Revolution'. It isn’t the fact of my taking power in France that interests me, but rather the possibility of creating a monochrome picture in my new manner: ‘The Refinement of Sensibility’.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.
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He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
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Interview with RIP Magazine, February 1993.
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…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn’t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.
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So, naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet in his kindIs bit by him that comes behind.
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
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I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.
