Billy Connolly Quotes
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!
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I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right.
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One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.
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I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
