Bill Hicks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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It gets late early out there.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.
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The unknown is always frightening.
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Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
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What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
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Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.
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We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
