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.
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.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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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.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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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.
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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.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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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.
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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.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!
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It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of 'an abundance or surplus' arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
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Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.
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With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
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I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
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Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
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It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.
