Billy Gardell Quotes
As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
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At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
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As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
