Billy Crudup Quotes
If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.
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Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
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Down there it's still Summer, I suppose, whereas our sun in Switzerland is already gilding the mountains and the larches are turning yellow, but the colours are wonderful, like old, dark red satin. Down here in the valley the huts stand out in the strongest Paris blue against the yellow fields. Here one really learns the values of the individual colours for the first time. And the harsh, monumental lines of the mountains.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
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If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
