Billy Crystal Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
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Oprah: Is there a muscle you use for performing?Billy: Yes - my brain.
