Billy Crystal Quotes
When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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History's a resource.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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I love to roll out of bed and throw something on. I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.
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When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
