Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) Quotes
It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.Will Oldham
Quotes to Explore
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery -
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
I do everything in a straightforward manner.
Harmon Killebrew -
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
Tatiana Maslany
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
A. Philip Randolph -
I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
Ian Caldwell -
I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
Rachel Zoe -
In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
T. R. Knight -
I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
Olly Murs
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
Tayari Jones -
I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
H. L. Mencken -
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey -
Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
Orlando Bloom -
I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
Larry Holmes -
I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.
Haley Joel Osment
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The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
Harold Prince -
People think it's so easy to make hamburgers. That consistent quality in so many restaurants, in that many parts of the world, is not an easy thing to do.
Margo Georgiadis -
I think that music has an endless life.
Anne Dudley -
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Wangari Maathai -
I don't enjoy songwriting.
Rod Stewart -
It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.
Will Oldham