Billy Collins Quotes
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.Billy Collins
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
Hannibal Buress -
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
Vincent Cassel -
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
Barbara Boxer
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
Zachary Levi -
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov -
People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
Victoria Justice -
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
Camille Paglia -
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler -
If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
Rafe Spall -
I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
Daniel Cormier -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
Valerie June
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton -
The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
Malcolm Turnbull -
At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Vivienne Westwood -
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
Billy Collins