Bill Konigsberg Quotes
I knew I could have danced if I wanted to, really. But I didn’t, so I didn’t have to. The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on its axis when everyone else is bouncing around.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.
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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
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Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
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I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
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A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
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If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.
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I knew I could have danced if I wanted to, really. But I didn’t, so I didn’t have to. The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on its axis when everyone else is bouncing around.
