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Billy Collins Quotes

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Funny Time College Me You Dark

My dad kicked me out of the house when I was 18. I was supposed to go to community college. I wasn't really into going because I wanted to do stand-up, and he felt I was wasting my time.

Jermaine Fowler

Community Time College Me House Go

I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.

Myself Feel Stone Nervous Way See

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Father Bike Me Basketball Year Used

I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

Art Food New Coming Up Keep

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.

Beautiful Day I Am Me Enough Look

I don't do quagmires.

Donald Rumsfeld

Think Thinking You Old Europe

It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

Donatella Versace

Good Believe In Yourself Yourself You

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

Christopher Eccleston

People Growing Up Theatre Feel Go

I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

Work Leader Women Alone Great Woman

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

People Doing Pay Torch Homage Just

I live every day as it comes. I never plan my life.

Life Live Day My Life Plan Never

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

Time Moving Looking Meetings Down

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