Billy Joel Quotes
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Surprise is key in all art.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.
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You want to win everything you are in.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
