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.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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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.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I hate competition.
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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?'
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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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.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Just because you want to eat vegetables and eat well doesn't mean you can't share food and have fun with it. It should still be an exciting thing. It shouldn't be just eating kale on your own in the corner.
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I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.
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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.
