Bill Delahunt Quotes
This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.
Quotes to Explore
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.
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I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
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This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.
