Billy Childish Quotes

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Engineering

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Know
  • Trust

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • God
  • Earth
  • End

• My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tennis

• I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Young
  • Everything
  • Repeat

• I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Great
  • Nothing
  • Fact

• Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Different
  • Painting
  • Now

• Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Reality
  • Movement
  • Feminist

• When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Politics
  • Sea
  • Sailing

• People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

  

  Gene Siskel

• Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.

  

  Ian Lawton
  • World
  • Hope
  • Future

• Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Failure