Bill Willingham Quotes
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
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We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
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I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.
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When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.
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Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.
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Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.
