Billy Joel Quotes
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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The devil made me do it.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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Everyone's bodies are different, and we all have different shapes, but it has nothing to do with who you are.
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Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
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I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
