Billy Childish Quotes
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
