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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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
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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.
