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.
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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.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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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.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
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Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
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I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.
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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.
