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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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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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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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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My worst job ever, this was when I was a kid, was picking potatoes on the back of a trailer in March. It was freezing, absolutely freezing. We had to sort the good ones from the bad ones. Once you do that for a day in March in the north of England, it makes you think there must be better jobs than this!
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I couldn't wait to borrow his 'magic pencil' and try my own hand at drawing these comic-strip characters, ... It was a major discovery, and I was floating on air with excitement.
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
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It is only by trying new things that we can hope to create products that are original. Don't just say those words; act like you believe them.
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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.
