Billy Donovan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
-
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
-
I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
-
First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
-
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
-
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
-
Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
-
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
-
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
-
It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
-
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
-
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
-
When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
-
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
-
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
-
They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
-
I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
-
Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
-
If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
-
I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
-
Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.
-
When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.
-
Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.
