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 -
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
Dana Perino -
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 -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams
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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.
Jaan Tallinn -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
Natalie Cole -
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.
Karen DeCrow -
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
Aaron McGruder -
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.
Patrick Lencioni -
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt -
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.
Pamela Anderson -
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.
Laura Trott -
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
Eddy Cue -
I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.
Cindy Crawford -
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
Elliott Carter -
Jung Yong-hwa and I know so much about each other, I think it would be difficult for us to start a romantic relationship.
Park Shin-hye -
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
W. S. Merwin -
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