Billy Childish Quotes
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.Billy Childish
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
Damien Chazelle -
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian -
From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
Lata Mangeshkar -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
Quentin Blake
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga -
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman -
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
Fatema Mernissi -
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
Carine Roitfeld
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer -
I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
Taylor Sheridan -
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
D. B. Weiss -
I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
Jack Dee -
I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
Mackenzie Crook -
At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
J. D. Vance
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I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.
John Fusco -
I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
Dana Snyder -
I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
Daniel Barenboim -
Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.
Lauren Conrad -
Grew up in church but at 12 it just became real to me to where i fully understood all Gods done for me and me wanting to live my life for him.
Aaron Cole -
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
Billy Childish