Billy West Quotes
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."
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Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.
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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
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Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
