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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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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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.
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At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.
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I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
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I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.
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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.
