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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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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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.
