"I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner."

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Billy Childish

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“I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.”
“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.”
“You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.”
“I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.”

Source : "The Gere hunter". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2002.
“Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.”
“We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
“I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.”

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