Billy Collins Quotes
I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
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I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.
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She was a genius, my mother.
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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
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he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
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'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
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Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
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There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.
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For everyone out there listening, thank you and Merry Christmas.
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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I relaxed my customary aversion to consulting a book by anyone so immensely pratty as to put 'Ph.D.' after his name (I don't put Ph.D. after my name on my books, after all - and not just because I don't have one).
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The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
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The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.
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I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
