Bill Konigsberg Quotes
The idea that because things are worse somewhere else, you’re not allowed to have issues in your life. That’s what people who are trying to avoid having normal feelings say.Bill Konigsberg
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles -
I always have issues with trust.
Vin Diesel -
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald -
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
S. E. Hinton -
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
Adam Driver -
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Abraham Maslow -
As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia -
I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
Tavi Gevinson -
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
Valerie Trierweiler -
I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
Hamza Yusuf
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You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
Victoria Pratt -
Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
Janet Jackson -
The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe -
Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, are motivated by all kinds of issues. They're sincerely interested in the economy, in terrorism, in social issues. But the one overriding thing they're interested in is getting reelected. And if they think that it's harder for them to get reelected by cooperating with each other, then they won't cooperate.
Barack Obama
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
Oscar Wilde -
You get the family together that hasn't been together and there's drinking. Tempers can flair and old issues can come to the surface - old grievances, old axes-to-grind.
John Young -
Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.
Andrew Ripp -
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
Fats Domino -
I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.
Tavi Gevinson -
The idea that because things are worse somewhere else, you’re not allowed to have issues in your life. That’s what people who are trying to avoid having normal feelings say.
Bill Konigsberg