Billy Eichner Quotes
The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.
