Billy Joel Quotes
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of thing. Learning other people's songs is enjoyable, and my fingers tend to go to new places because I'm not playing my music, the stuff that comes naturally to me.
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I don't really send text messages. I rarely carry my phone. I occasionally check messages at the end of the night, but I don't carry it around.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
