Billy Crudup Quotes

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

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• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Mother
  • Nice
  • Director

• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Doing
  • Just
  • Concentrate

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• 'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Real
  • Job

• There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Blessing
  • Sucks

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
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  • Thinking

• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Film
  • Clothes
  • Documentaries

• I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, ' If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him.'

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Long
  • May

• I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
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  • Work
  • Music

• I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

  

  Kent Haruf
  • Writing
  • Book

• I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

  

  Billy Crudup
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