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.
Vidal Sassoon -
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.
Ed Miliband -
I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
T. J. Miller -
Africa is the future.
Youssou N'Dour -
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.
Hannah Simone -
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson
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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.
Vanity -
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.
Damien Hirst -
It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
Caitlin Stasey -
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.
Paige O'Hara -
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee -
I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
Ranbir Kapoor
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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.
Mads Mikkelsen -
We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
Gary Neville -
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
H. Rap Brown -
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.
Felicity Huffman -
Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
Adam Grant
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
Candy Crowley -
There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.
Doug Liman -
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot -
Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.
Alison Bechdel -
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
August Wilson -
What, like Harpic?
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