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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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'
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You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.
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I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.
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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.
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The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'
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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.
