Billy Collins Quotes
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
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Age for me is just a number.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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There is no truly global justice.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.
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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
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I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
