Bill Konigsberg Quotes
The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
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I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
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Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.
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Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
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The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.
