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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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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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.
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It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all of us have that capacity to do it, just an hour a week, an hour every couple of weeks, and you can make a tremendous difference in a kid's life over their lifetime.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you.
