Bill Konigsberg Quotes
My dad always says this thing, that when you have a foot in tomorrow and a foot in yesterday, you’re pissing all over the present.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!
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I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.
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My dad always says this thing, that when you have a foot in tomorrow and a foot in yesterday, you’re pissing all over the present.
