Billy Crudup Quotes
I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
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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'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
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That was the first time that I really saw my mother as a person. A person who was so much more than just my mother. It was strange to think of her that way.
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You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.
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The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.
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I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
