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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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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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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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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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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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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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 really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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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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Once I started doing specials I always incorporated "Fluffy" into it. But with Stand-Up Revolution, I left it out because I want it to be different for people. I'm there, yes, but it's something different.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.
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You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.
