Billy Connolly Quotes
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
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There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
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I can't dance to save my life, really - proper, proper dad dancing - but I was once at a wrap party for a show, and at the end of the night, they still hadn't played 'Dancing Queen'. So we extended the wrap party for 40 minutes and played 'Dancing Queen' 11 times in a row.
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When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
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I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
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Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
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I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.
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I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
