Billy Crudup Quotes
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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It's interesting, but in the last five or six years, the audiences are dressing better.
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I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.
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You try to say every week that you're facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is - first game of the season, last game of the season.
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The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.
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The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.
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My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.
