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Billy Collins Quotes

For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Painting Saying Ignore Play

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

Jodie Foster

Focus People Movies Actor Director

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

John McCain

Marriage People Believe Legal Gay

We will decide who comes to our country.

John Howard

Country Will Decide Who Our

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

Jeffrey Sachs

Someone Run Out Currency Unusual

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

John Updike

Love New York Body New Special Own

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Amartya Sen

Community College Student Active

I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.

Amitabh Bachchan

Myself Television Well Like Upfront

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

Politics Problem Poverty More Middle

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.

Shimon Peres

Think Resolution Always Something Us

I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.

Rob Walton

Money You Price Want Mean Where

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

Josh Hartnett

Life People Me Care Fame My Own

I really wanted to get out of England.

Jared Harris

Out Get England Wanted Really