Bill Konigsberg Quotes
Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.
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I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
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I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
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That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
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Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'
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To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.
