Billy Childish Quotes

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that — because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.

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• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Fun
  • Right
  • WIld

• I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Thought
  • Security
  • Sexuality

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Culture
  • Military

• Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Why
  • Words
  • Moment

• And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Mother
  • Thought
  • New

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Person
  • Just

• I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Software
  • Page
  • Google

• If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • You
  • Acting
  • Actor

• We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Party

• In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Always
  • Language
  • Learn

• I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Past
  • Name
  • Opportunities

• I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Writer
  • Going
  • Either

• I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.

  

  Jon Jones
  • God
  • Pride
  • Champion

• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Only
  • Routine

• When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next...' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.

  

  Ashley Monroe
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Except for doing some somersaults on the ground, I knew nothing about the aerials at the beginning. I have to learn all the basic skills, such as skiing, swimming and inline skating. When I touched skiing, I learned very fast and I realized that I could do the sport well in the future.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Skills
  • Aerials
  • Somersaults

• You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Value

• Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that — because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.

  

  Billy Childish