Billy Connolly Quotes
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel very, very blessed.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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I can't not be who I am.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.
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The first view of the Earth is magical... in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred. You get the feeling that I need to work extraordinarily hard along with other human beings to respect that.
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.
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I was bullied at school.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.
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Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.
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Nothing is certain-that is the first lesson.
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It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.
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The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.
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Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
