Bill Konigsberg Quotes

Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.

Bill Konigsberg

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• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Mother
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• Western man is schizophrenic.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Western
  • Schizophrenic

• 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.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Work
  • May
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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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
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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.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
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• Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Things
  • Favorite
  • Wheel

• 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.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • History
  • Now
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Write

• I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Myself
  • Body
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • True
  • Girl
  • Question

• Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • World
  • Kids
  • War

• And learn the luxury of doing good.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good

• Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Habit

• Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Good
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• Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.

  

  Edward Witten

• I write for my people.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People

• People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Career

• I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Singing
  • Face

• In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Life
  • Performance
  • Rehearsals