Billy Crystal Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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First appearance deceives many.
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As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.
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For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.
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There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
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With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.
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As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.
