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
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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
Barry Manilow
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I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.
Xabi Alonso
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Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.
Jason Kidd
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
Nate Berkus
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When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.
Jools Holland
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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