Billy Eichner Quotes
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.
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I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
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I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
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Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
