Billy Crystal Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
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I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
