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Billy Collins Quotes

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1941

Topics

Think Underrated Word Poems I Think

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.

Memory Name Him Miles Along Genetic

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Grow Doing You Back Living Accept

To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It's often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It's the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.

Life Best Do Your Best Breakfast Me

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

Anna Kournikova

Purpose People Me Blame World Think

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

Writing Think Short First Fiction

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

Easy You Nothing Difficult Becomes

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

John Schlesinger

Great Price Nothing Happen Cost

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

Family Day Book House Kid Books

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

Life Want Vote Taken For Granted

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Family Rebellion Part Option Really

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

People Better Trying Become Expect

It's a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most popular television shows in history offers an opportunity. I look at it as an ambassadorial opportunity at times, where I can go to places and have the opportunity to do things and meet people that other people don't have.

Stars Opportunity History Curious Go

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