Bill Konigsberg Quotes
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
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We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.
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I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.
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Don't worry about trying to impress people... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Don't expect a great day; create one.
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Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
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The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.
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I’m just me, and me is confusing.
