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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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you experience them fully. It may be your own preordained prejudice where you can't experience them fully. But when you come out of the cinema having felt, thought, and experienced your way through two hours, that is a really cool thing.
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The terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ must be understood as representing no more primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
