Bill Willingham Quotes
Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?
Quotes to Explore
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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How can a mother's heart feel cold or wearyKnowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm?How can she feel her road too dark or dreary,Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,And thrust those little angel hands aside?
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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
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Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.
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We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.
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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
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I'm awkward around girls.
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I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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As an actor, you audition a lot for 'the girlfriend' or the 'hot girl.'
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If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
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When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.
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The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
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There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.
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Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?
