Billy Crudup Quotes
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
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It's time to have wage equality one and for all
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We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Back when a hoe was a hoe.Coke was a coke.And crack's what you were doing.When you were cracking jokes.Back when a screw was a screw.The wind was all that blew.And when you said I'm down with that.Well, it meant you had the flu.I miss back when.I miss back when.I miss back when.
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Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
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Does that make you happy, Mr. Rock & Roll Fantasy? You know what? Eddie Vedder’s gonna live to be 98. How’s that make you feel, huh? I love you, come back. You come back! You love us. You love me, don’t you? You love Frances. Where are you? Are you happier now?
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The past, he said. The past is too much with me. And the past has made me useless. I have too much to remember-so much to remember that it becomes more important than the things there are to do. I’m living in the past and that is no way to live.
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Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.
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Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'
