Bill Willingham Quotes
I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.
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My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
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I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
