Bill Plympton Quotes

I like to get up at six in the morning, and I draw until sometimes ten at night.

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Blue

• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Afraid

• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Bored
  • Three

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • Important
  • Giving

• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Story

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Prepare
  • Improviser

• 'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

  

  Barbara Demick
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  • Power
  • Black

• I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Harmonica

• I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Up
  • Action
  • Always

• Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • World
  • Freedom

• Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Believe
  • May
  • Truth

• When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • School

• In Germany, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The German will walk right up to that door and close it right in your face, they will lock it on the other side of that glass door with a shrug, like 'sorry'. A South Korean would never do that, ever. And, and this is what I like about them.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
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  • Door
  • Sorry

• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Science
  • Health
  • Positive

• I like to get up at six in the morning, and I draw until sometimes ten at night.

  

  Bill Plympton
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  • Night
  • Morning