Billy Butler Quotes
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.
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There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement.
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I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
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Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.
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I love everything about Kansas City.
