Billy Collins Quotes
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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I'm confident as hell when I step in front of the mic.
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For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
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A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
