Bill Willingham Quotes
...I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.
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As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
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Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.
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I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
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No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.
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Man, it was tough. But it is what I had to deal with.
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Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.
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If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
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...I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.
