Bill Irwin Quotes
I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.
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I love singing. I love singing at home.
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We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
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The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.
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The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.
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My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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A man, an adult, is precisely what Aeneas is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.
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I like having many friends and scoring goals.
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We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.
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We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.
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I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.
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I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.
