Bill Konigsberg Quotes
In the grand scheme of the universe, that doesn't amount to a parasite on an ant on the butt of an elephant.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
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Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
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If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
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It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.
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The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
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You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe...the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the issues that this country needs to grapple with to determine its future.
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Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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In the grand scheme of the universe, that doesn't amount to a parasite on an ant on the butt of an elephant.
