Bill Konigsberg Quotes
Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.
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One does not have humor. It has you.
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A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.
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It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
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When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'
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Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.
