Billy Childish Quotes

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

Billy Childish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 1, 1959

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I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.

Jesse Williams

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When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

Joel Robuchon

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Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

Michael Imperioli

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Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

Steve Jurvetson

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The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

Stanley Tucci

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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Robert Byrd

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Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

Roger Corman

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We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

Mike Shinoda

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All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

Michael Moritz

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When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

Dougray Scott

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I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

Christine Lagarde

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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Anne Rice

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