Billy Collins Quotes

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.

Jim Lee

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I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

Andrew Lincoln

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I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

Matt Groening

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I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

Jeffrey Pierce

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I watched a lot of 'I Love Lucy.' Then I went to college, and I didn't watch TV, really. I don't know: something happened after 'Friends' went off the air. I think something dipped in the whole sitcom world.

Simon Helberg

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I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

Mike Wallace

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I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Liya Kebede

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We wanted to harness the power of technology to make it possible for anyone to sell tickets to any type of event.

Julia Hartz

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I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

Jordin Sparks

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Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

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There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution.

Brett Kavanaugh

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