Billy Collins Quotes
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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Eventually, I developed compartment syndrome in my calf and had to get surgery. I run three to five days a week now, mixed in with walking and other things. I want to run just because I enjoy it.
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My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
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I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
