Billy Crystal Quotes
Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I hate competition.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!
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Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.
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Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
