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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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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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.
