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.
Sam Raimi
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
Wadada Leo Smith
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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.
Sam Smith
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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.
Ted Yoho
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
L'Wren Scott
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay
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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.
Vance Havner
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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.
Najib Mikati
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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.
Barry Zito
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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.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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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.
Edith Stein
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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.
Edgar Degas
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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?
Sam Yagan
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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.
Olivia Colman
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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.
Carles Puigdemont
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
Victoria Principal
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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.
Vince Vaughn
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My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.
Faith Hill
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
Kate Reardon
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Today’s hard news stories were yesterday’s dystopian SF. Rereading
Pat Cadigan
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
Carice van Houten
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I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that.
El DeBarge DeBarge
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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.
Billy Childish