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Billy Childish Quotes

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Billy Childish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Failure Art Me Painting Doing

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

Jeremy London

Baseball Cricket American Try Up

When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

Maureen Johnson

People Me Writing Way Always See

Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.

Michael A. Stackpole

Me Wrong Something Means Readers

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

Robert Falcon Scott

Journey Great Past Death Writing

When I go back to seek inspiration - whether it be from Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, the Beatles, Hank Williams, Ray Charles or Bob Dylan - it's from the performance. Those artists are in the studio playing their instrument and singing. There's no going back and redoing the vocals.

Rodney Crowell

Singing Performance Wolf Back Go

The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).

Martin Rees

Challenge Energy Global Warming Clean

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

Mike Ditka

Change You Just Because Mean Sweets

I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.

Dr. Dre

Penny Person Want More Get Just

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.

Chris Lilley

Girl Never Been

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

Clarence Thomas

Black You Talk Minority Within

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Alice Walker

American African-American Native Part

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.

Suzanne Collins

Start You Lose Edge Try Outside