Billy Connolly Quotes
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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Science is not gadgetry.
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I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.
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You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
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I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
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We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.
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It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.
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I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.
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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
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Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
