Bill Willingham Quotes
The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
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Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.
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One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.
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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
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I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.
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I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.
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The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.
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The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.
