Billy Joel Quotes
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I love anything to do with history.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!
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Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
