Billy Collins Quotes
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I like to discover new things.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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I loved Mommy and Me. I would go every day of my life. I had fun. I thought it was the best thing ever.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.
