Billy Joel Quotes
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
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I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
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Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.
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Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.
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Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.
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There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
