Billy Collins Quotes

I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

John C. Reilly

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It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Jerome Lawrence

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I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair.

John Gurdon

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If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.

John Krasinski

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I work in silence.

Sophia Amoruso

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I want a job where I work for eight months, then do nothing for four.

Travis Fimmel

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I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.

Loni Love

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I am an austere president.

Jose Mujica

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When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

Drew Carey

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I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.

Chris Gibson

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This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3.

Colin Mochrie

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What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

Chuck Schumer

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