Billy Connolly Quotes
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There is always pressure in football.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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My mother is a Trekkie, and we're from San Diego, so I was going to Comic-Con when I was, like, 7 years old.
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One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
