Billy Joel Quotes
There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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I was a really big kid.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
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I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.
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When I was a kid I used to drink from the tap all the time. I'd run back into the flat all hot and sweaty from playing and didn't even bother putting it in a glass, just turned the tap on and stuck my mouth underneath it. If my mom caught me doing it she used to scold me, but my dad just said that I had to be careful. 'What if a fish jumped out?' he used to say. 'You'd swallow it before you knew it was there.' Dad was always saying stuff like that and it wasn't until I was seventeen that I realised it was because he was stoned all the time.
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I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.
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I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.
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There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.
