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MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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JOSH YOUNG Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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ISAAC HANSON It's exciting. It's a double dose of Billy Joel.
BARBARA BOCHNER I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was ...
MARLEE MATLIN I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
DAVID GEFFEN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
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RICK RIORDAN My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.
KYLE DUNNIGAN Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
BEN FOLDS My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.
JOSH YOUNG Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.
KYGO His style is sort of pop, like Billy Joel or Elton John.
CHRIS BRANDON The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
GAVIN DEGRAW I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
KEVIN HART I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
BILLY MAYS It was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. It's Billy Joel - what else do you have to say?
JOSH DAVIS I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.
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BARBARA BOCHNER Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
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"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my...
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ELLIE KEMPER 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th a...
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MARIA BAMFORD As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
ROB ZOMBIE I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.
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STEVEN WRIGHT I love biscuits. I have a real thing for a biscuits, and if it's not made right, I'm gonna c...
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AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
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GARTH NIX I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and ...
GARTH NIX I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age'...
GARTH NIX Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music,...
GARTH HUDSON I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there...
GARTH ENNIS As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready ...
GARTH ENNIS I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's...
GARTH ENNIS I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the charact...
GARTH ENNIS I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of...
GARTH ENNIS I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can su...
GARTH ENNIS If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
GARTH ENNIS It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a ...
GARTH ENNIS Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the ...
GARTH ENNIS There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on o...
GARTH ENNIS Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I re...
GARTH ENNIS Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
GARTH ENNIS With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
GARTH ENNIS I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with...
GARTH ENNIS The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as a...
GARTH ENNIS Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want...
GARTH ENNIS It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly in...
GARTH ENNIS Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of ...
GARTH ENNIS You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of missi...
GARTH ENNIS I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and y...
GARTH ENNIS I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I ...
GARTH DAVIS I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how t...
GARTH DAVIS Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early day...
GARTH DAVIS There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research...
GARTH DAVIS Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
GARTH DAVIS I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the...
GARTH DAVIS I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other...
GARTH DAVIS The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives...
GARTH DAVIS I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world fi...
GARTH DAVIS Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
GARTH DAVIS I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just mak...
GARTH DAVIS Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
GARTH BROOKS Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently wh...
GARTH BROOKS I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
GARTH BROOKS I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and g...
GARTH BROOKS It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become ...
GARTH BROOKS People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
GARTH BROOKS You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
GARTH BROOKS I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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