Billy Collins Quotes

I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.

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• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

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• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

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• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

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• My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

  

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• I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

  

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• Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.

  

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• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

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• My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

  

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• The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  

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• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

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• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

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• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

  

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• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

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• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

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• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

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• Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

  

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• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

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• As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

  

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• Hey, if something is making you feel good, and it's not hurting anyone else, does it really matter if others believe?

  

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• I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.

  

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• Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'

  

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• I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

  

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• I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.

  

  Billy Collins
  • College
  • Lake