Billy Crystal Quotes
I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
Quotes to Explore
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn't move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.
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I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.
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And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
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I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
