Billy Joel Quotes
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I grew up on films.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Novels are longer than life.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
