Bill Willingham Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
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My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.
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Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.
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He's every adventure I ever want to be on.
