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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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.
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I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.
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Truth is … one approach to the attainment of the good, but in and of itself, it is neither the good nor the beautiful … Socrates, Pascal, and others regarded knowledge of the truth with regard to purposeless objects as incongruous with the good … by exposing deception, truth destroys illusion, which is the principle attribute of beauty.
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'Jane the Virgin' is one of the most original shows that's been presented in the United States.
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.
