Billy Collins Quotes
Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
Billy Collins
Quotes to Explore
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
Dana Perino
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
Ian Anthony Dale
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
Gary Numan
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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
John Edgar Wideman
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty.
Robert Frost
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Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.
Jerry Coleman
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Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
Billy Collins
