Billy Connolly Quotes
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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I've got a waistline to develop.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Silence is my dignity.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
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The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
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I went through a really dorky phase.
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
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If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
