Billy Crystal Quotes

That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.

Billy Crystal

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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Joachim du Bellay

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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.

Jenny Zhang

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I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Robert Redford

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As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

Anita Baker

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I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Ang Lee

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It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

Jeb Bush

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Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

Shooter Jennings

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The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart.

Tommy Bond

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Rudyard Kipling

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As a producer, it's not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot.

Mary Pilon

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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Mitch Leigh

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That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they'd say no.

Mitt Romney

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