Bill Konigsberg Quotes
You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.
Quotes to Explore
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
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You want to do a few things really well because you want to come out with a product that is fully baked, even though it may be lacking in a few features or whatever, rather than the one that's all-achieving but not doing anything too well.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
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You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.
