Bill Willingham Quotes
One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer.
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I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.
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When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
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Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.
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Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.
