Billy Childish Quotes
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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I have no literary fears.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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Head coaching options are limited.
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I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!
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Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
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I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.
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I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
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There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.
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It has become an ongoing national joke.
