Bill Engvall Quotes
I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I hate competition.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
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Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.
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No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
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I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards.
