Billie Eilish Quotes
'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.
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The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.
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It's weird: I've been to prison, I've seen the worst sort of violence and negative shit in the streets, but when it comes to putting my heart on the line and letting somebody get to know me in a relationship, it's very difficult.
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The daughter can become the mother's opportunity either to make up for the past and right wrongs or to exact retribution for her losses. The mother's own experience of the long-ago family serves as an overlay to her mothering: Past and present are inextricably intertwined.
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'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
