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.
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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 collect hats, and I'm really big into Stetsons. Not particularly the Stetsons brand but that sort of fedora-type. I just think it's sharp.
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In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.
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Donald Trump is a breath of fresh air in the nation where the political establishment from both parties has betrayed their constituencies time and time again.
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I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.
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Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.
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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.
