Bill Konigsberg Quotes
I was thinking about how snakes shed their skin every year, and how awesome it would be if people did that too. In lots of ways, that’s what I was trying to do.
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
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I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.
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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
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What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
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Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.
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I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.
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When I was working at Gilt, a lot of people at the time - this is back in 2009; Gilt launched in 2007 - were making their first fashion purchases online and at a discount.
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I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because I think that when you have people from different countries, it sort of brings everyone together, it's more of a worldly film.
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I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.
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I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.
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People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.
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Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.
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The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.
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I was thinking about how snakes shed their skin every year, and how awesome it would be if people did that too. In lots of ways, that’s what I was trying to do.
