Billy Crystal Quotes
It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
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From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
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It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
