Billy Crudup Quotes
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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People trash talk me.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
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Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.
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In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
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There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
