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 think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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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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Life is a little easier for attractive people. Think about it: if a stranger smiles at you and they’re attractive, you think, ‘Oh, they’re nice,’ but if a stranger’s ugly, you’re like, ‘What do they want? Get away from me, weirdo.
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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Growing up, I watched my single mother work hard to provide for her three kids. She raised us in a one-bathroom house on a public-school teacher's salary of $22,000 a year.
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You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.
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Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.
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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.
