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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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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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.
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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
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What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you.
