Billie Eilish Quotes
If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I don't have many friends.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.
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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.
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If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.
