Bill Whittle Quotes
Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
Quotes to Explore
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Music is about the performance.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I want the look of a movie to be secondary. I really want people to be engaged in the story and the characters and not think about a style or think about me or think about the director of photography and what a great job he's doing. I never feel like that should be there.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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Even if I'm talking about something that's negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
