Billy Childish Quotes
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Africa is the future.
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
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Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
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KING: … of any kind. Should they have a state? Do you agree with the president there? There should be a Palestinian state?
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You could argue people are generally better off now mentally than they were back then. We follow the natural cycles. We eat real food instead of processed crap full of chemicals. We're not jacked up on coffee and television and sexy advertising all the time. No more anxiety about credit card bills.
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What, like Harpic?
