Billy Joel Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I believe in giving back.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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You have good days and bad days.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens.
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I wash my face with Creme de la Mer cleansing foam. I love Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream - it's got SPF15 in it, which I love - and then I'll use a little eye cream by Sisley, which I'm obsessed with. That's what I generally use every day.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you.