Billy West Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an 'Inside Men' sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.
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One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.
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MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.