Billy Joel Quotes
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
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I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on and on and on...
