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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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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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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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.
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I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.
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'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
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I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
