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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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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'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.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
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We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we fall in love with them again and go, 'I shouldn't be doing this,' but you can't stop it.
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There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
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The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
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I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.
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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.
