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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 sister has been there for me through everything.
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I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.
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I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.
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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.
