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'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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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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I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.
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Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't know any different. I grew up in a very tall house, so I wasn't an anomaly there.
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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.
