Billy Childish Quotes
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
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Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.
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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
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After all the stops and starts, we keep coming back to these two hearts. Two angels rescued from the fall, and after all that we've been through, it all comes down to me and you. I guess it's meant to be, forever, you and me, after all.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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Small things make me happy, and I laugh out loud on the silliest of jokes!
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Dare my guilty heart admit the horrible acknowledgement that I love you still?
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Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
