Billy Childish Quotes
I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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My education was very tough.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
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With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
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I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.