Billy Collins Quotes

The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

John C. Reilly

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I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

Anna Kendrick

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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

Jeff Vandermeer

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For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.

Ana Ivanovic

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I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.

Tony Dungy

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I'm kind of fat.

Tom Douglas

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It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.

Douglas Alexander

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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

Constance Baker Motley

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I'm too impatient.

Brigitte Bardot

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After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'

Scott Bakula

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I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

Richard P. Feynman

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I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.

Kourtney Kardashian

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