Billy Collins Quotes
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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Let's just focus on unity and love.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
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Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it's a mental one - the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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The studio should not have released this film.
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I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar.
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I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
