Bill Engvall Quotes
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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I stood in front of a hundred and one critics at a critic's convention and a critic asked me, 'Miss Cho, isn't it true that your management asked you to lose weight to play the part of yourself in your own TV show?' Gail the producer grabbed the mike from me and said, 'There is no truth in that whatsoever.' I...was so...hungry.
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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the rest of the day off. I do think that it can be overdone, however.
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There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
