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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
Bill Bruford
Music
Think
Fact
Emphasis
Like
Lot
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
Bill Bruford
Music
Section
Seeing
Area
Like
Messing
Around
Happens
Rhythm
Rhythm Section
Room
Engine
I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.
Bill Bryson
Me
Crazy
You
Human Being
Wife
Long
Down
Other
Way
Say
Kind
About
Give
Could
Long List
Feel
Like
Most
She
Same
List
Human
Essentially
Just
Being
Just Kind
Fantastic
Each
Lived
Ever
Things
Britain
Suit
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
Bill Bryson
Heights
Books
Emily
Had
Like
House
Up
Grew
Full
Des Moines
Dad
Things
I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.
Bill Buckner
Take
Step
Feel
Like
Another
Walking
Eggs
People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.
Bill Burr
People
Problem
World
Too Much
Focus
Power
Too
Corporations
UN
Guy
Main
Had
He
Like
Democrat
Around
Got
Doing
Been
Trump
Office
Influence
Whether
Republican
Much
Second
You have to show up at 7 in the morning and be on like it's 9 at night. It's a skill. Some comics run from it, and they hate doing it, but the comics that are pros understand how important it is, and they get good at it.
Bill Burr
Good
Morning
You
Hate
Important
Run
Some
Pros
Like
Understand
How
Comics
Doing
Up
Get
Skill
Show
Night
They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
Bill Burr
You
Sense Of Humor
Amazing
Heroes
Humor
Sense
Meet
Say
Those
Guy
Guys
Disappoint
Like
Because
Just
Want
Them
Your
Sweetheart
They Say
Two
I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.
Bill Burr
Work
Myself
Me
You
Better
Down
Those
Out
Finding
Classes
Scene
Instance
Taking
Stuff
Like
Comfortable
Got
Up
Get
Trying
Sitting
Getting
Work Out
Much
Really
Act
Acting
Used
Hard
Standing
Standing Up
Suck
I think some people really change when they become a dad. Like, I've changed in different ways. I - but, like, my comedy hasn't changed. And I've also seen people do that where you become this - you become a dad, and then all of a sudden, you're trying to be a role model.
Bill Burr
You
Change
People
Comedy
Some People
Seen
Become
Think
Changed
Ways
Some
Like
Also
Model
Role
Role Model
Trying
Where
Different
Then
Really
Sudden
Dad
Different Ways
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
Bill Burr
Life
Work
My Life
Out
Bad
Tried
Idea
Come
Like
Know
Most
Because
Around
Comics
Up
Sitcom
Ended
Maybe
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Work Out
Based
Why
Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.
Bill Burr
Work
Me
You
Respect
People
Treat
Comedy
Just Be
Down
Else
Top
Find
See
Someone
Hour
Like
Lean
Alright
Because
Got
Gotta
Coming
Up
Get
Did
Going
Just
Mike
Stand
Stand Up
Even
Now
Harder
Thing
My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.
Bill Burr
Time
Day
Half
Mouth
Favorite
Favorite Part
Running
Only
Only Time
Part
Feels
Hour
Like
Off
Then
That's kind of my job in the writer's room. I'm always the guy going, like, 'People wouldn't say that there. They wouldn't say that.' Like, I hate when I watch sitcoms and something crazy happens, and people just kind of go, 'Huh?' and then they just go on.
Bill Burr
Crazy
Hate
People
Job
Say
Kind
Something
Guy
Writer
Like
Always
Go
Sitcoms
Huh
Going
Just
Just Kind
Happens
Room
Then
Watch
I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.
Bill Callahan
Change
Guitar
Thought
Made
Recording
Nothing
Drastic
Drastic Change
Bad
Plug
About
Something
Recorder
Absolutely
Absolutely Nothing
Had
Knew
Like
Sound
Real
Any
Just
Moved
Screaming
Anything
Subtle
Which
Communicating
Skills
Electric
Electric Guitar
Cool
Right
I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.
Bill Callahan
Me
You
Own
Skin
Else
Find
Someone
Voice
Feel
Come
Like
Became
Doing
Off
Cloak
Want
While
Then
Really
Your
Keep
Conscious
Thing
Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.
Bill Callahan
Music
Time
Me
Guitar
First
Every
Every Time
Approach
Gaze
Laugh
Admiration
About
Outward
Like
Know
Talk
Looks
First Time
Makes
Does
Itself
Craft
Any
Anything
Theory
I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.
Bill Callahan
Spiritual
Power
Mountains
Some
Stuff
Like
Sort
Felt
Always
Oceans
Where
Which
Meaning
Necessarily
Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
Bill Callahan
Writing
World
Think
Songs
Like
Ticket
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
Bill Callahan
You
Book
Song
Writing
Big
Reading
Kind
Paragraphs
Something
Feather
More
Write
Prose
Feel
Like
Block
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
Bill Callahan
Father
He
Saddle
Like
Being
Fiction
James
Apparently
I learn about history and religion and politics. It keeps me tuned in. If I hear something on the news, I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is what somebody is talking about in the play that I'm about to do in two hours.' The act itself - of rehearsing, failing, and still persisting and trying to create - keeps me curious, keeps me searching.
Bill Camp
Politics
God
News
Religion
Me
History
Somebody
About
Something
Failing
Like
Hours
Learn
Talking
Still
Hear
Itself
Curious
Trying
Oh
Oh My God
Tuned
Create
Act
Rehearsing
Searching
Play
Keeps
Two
I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'
Bill Condon
God
You
Wake Up
Made
Year
Gone
Could
Never
Had
Pushing
Weird
Over
Like
Know
Involved
Couple
Wrote
Gosh
Still
Passionately
Years
Wake
Up
Close
Five
Get
Pryor
Getting
After
Movies
Richard
Richard Pryor
Suddenly
I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.
Bill Condon
World
Thought
Sense
Think
Guess
Batman
Melodrama
Kind
Invented
More
More Than Anything
Never
Like
Because
Got
Making
Than
Done
Anything
Should
Fun
Twilight
Enjoyment
I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens.
Bill Cunningham
Life
Took
Through
New
Like
Shooting
York
Heavens
New York
Star
In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
Bill Dedman
Before
Club
Months
Destroyed
Hurricane
Beach
High-Risk
New
Like
Yacht
Yachts
FEMA
Sticks
August
Up
York
Stacked
Just
New York
Which
Request
Sandy
Granted
Flood
Zone
Two
Damaged
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