Billy Joel Quotes
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.
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I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.
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We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.
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I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens to me is that I will fall in love with a particular ingredient or a particular dish... Once I make the decision that something has intrigued me enough to draw me in, there is no end to it.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
