Billy Collins Quotes
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
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I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.
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It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
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Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
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I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
