Billy Collins Quotes
I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
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There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I have always been an active part of my community.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.
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'Sucker Punch' was so demanding, it scared me a bit.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.
