Billy Joel Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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My parents were the exact opposite of stage parents. They did everything in their power to keep it from happening. But it was going to happen no matter what. I was like, 'Thanks for raising me, but I'm going to take it from here.'
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
