Bill Willingham Quotes
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.
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I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
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...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
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Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
