Billy Joel Quotes
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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Tra-la-las and doo-be-do's became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do's in the '50s and '60s. But then when I re-recorded 'Breaking Up,' I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do's!
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I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
