Billy Kennedy Quotes

The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.

Billy Kennedy

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• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Faith

• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Try
  • Grandparents

• We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Want
  • Like
  • Where

• I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Done
  • Change
  • Value

• I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Always
  • Expect

• My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Chinese
  • Appreciation
  • Details

• When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • May
  • Business

• I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Life
  • Great
  • Women

• Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Exercise
  • Drinking
  • Hours

• The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.

  

  John Lukacs
  • Community
  • Patriotism
  • Racist

• But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Difference
  • Qualities
  • Merit

• Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Blood
  • Afraid
  • Queen

• All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Beginnings
  • Pause
  • Threshold

• If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

  

  Heidi Klum
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Talented

• Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • High
  • Game

• The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Attention
  • Should
  • Hold

• Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Happens

• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Parent

• The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.

  

  Billy Kennedy
  • Talented
  • Young Man
  • Recruiting