Bill Konigsberg Quotes
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
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I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.
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'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'
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All you have to do is say Fuck Off when the vagina doctor calls.
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It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.
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What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
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Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.
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I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.
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My life is so much better with lupus because I know that stress and too much junk food will literally put me in hospital.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!" He nodded, "About you.
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Lean forward, and head on down the mountain.
