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Bill Engvall Quotes

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 27, 1957

Topics

Fun People Have Fun Think Stage Too

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Sheep Same Always Shepherd Own His

When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.

Consequences Student Sometimes Want

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Good Serious Boy Crime Never Been

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

Good Strong Upbringing Really Had

I never go anywhere without my iPod.

Go Never Without Anywhere iPod

I was given a chance to re-haul 'New Mutants' and take it from the dog of the 'X-Men' office to 1 million copies with its final issue.

Dog Chance New Office Final Take

The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism.

Racism Believe Story Person Way She

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

Mountain Me Writing Conquer Become

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

Luke Pasqualino

Tea Back Phone Phone Call Go Cup

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Job People Easy You Say Want

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Music Honesty Heart You Write Pop

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

Car Parents Kid Manhattan Whose Had

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