Bill Willingham Quotes
Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.
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A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
