Billy Mays Quotes
My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I love anything to do with history.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
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In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
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Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
