Billy Childish Quotes
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.
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I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
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I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.
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At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
