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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
Billie Jean King
Risks
People
Entrepreneurial
Take
Like
Who
Chance
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
Billie Jean King
Life
Great
Me
Money
Made
My Life
Back
Has-Been
Tennis
Putting
Like
Been
We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Every
Other
Everything
Record
Had
Put
Like
Make
Just
A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.
Billie Piper
You
Singing
Live
Musical
Bit
Hated
Never
Idea
Like
Most
Sing
Singer
Felt
Confident
Heaven
Film
Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, 'I want a bit of that'. It kind of forced me to get to know my family again. Another reason why he's so lovely.
Billie Piper
Love
Family
Me
Made
Before
Think
Bit
Kind
About
Never
He
Like
Know
Forced
Known
Another
Get
Want
Lovely
Again
Reason
Why
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.
Billie Piper
Mind
Reading
Find
More
Takes
Like
Off
Friend
Than
Little
Used
Now
Ever
Things
Tedious
We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
Billy Beane
Casino
Try
Path
Situation
Would
Some
Rates
Risk
Like
Return
Greater
Insurance
How
Least
Getting
Where
Predictability
Create
Asset
Chance
Set
I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?
Billy Beane
Hate
Writing
Win
Become
Too
Enough
Out
Possible
Detached
Somehow
Guy
Idea
Like
How
Been
Years
Hearing
Lineup
Hands-On
Now
Card
Present
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
Billy Bob Thornton
Funny
Good
Family
You
People
Made
Bad Things
Think
Funny People
Kids
Bad
About
Days
Like
Make
Got
How
Friends
Family And Friends
Irresponsible
Movies
Show
Things
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
Billy Bob Thornton
Me
Minds
Out
Stay
Temple
Records
Drives
Nobody
Tower
Like
Hours
Shop
Them
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
Billy Bob Thornton
Me
Baby
Fattest
Clark
Put
Arkansas
Like
County
Prize
Newspaper
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
Billy Boyd
Nature
About
Like
Lot
Very
Scottish
Which
Land
Thing
Enjoying
People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.
Billy Boyd
People
Money
Made
Scared
Something
Weddings
Like
Look
Make
Another
Lot
Get
Again
Means
Film
Four
Funeral
There's always times when, the organization, we're losing 90 games at a time, and it always feels like we're developing players. But you just continue to grind and continue to do your job.
Billy Butler
Time
You
Losing
Organization
Job
Developing
Feels
Like
Always
Continue
Times
Just
Grind
Your
Games
Players
I just don't like to talk about my personal success against somebody.
Billy Butler
Success
Somebody
About
Like
Talk
Personal
Just
Against
I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.
Billy Campbell
Good
Fashion
Trust
People
Somewhere
Every
Think
Once
Some
Almost
Like
Always
Shooting
Any
Going
Form
Script
Means
Lanka
Film
Things
Awhile
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
Billy Carter
Good
Beer
Drinking
Only
Like
Tastes
Stop
Hard
Paintings
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
Billy Collins
Spooky
Me
Marriage
Sunday
Lasting
Paper
Say
Those
Sections
Characters
Memento
Obituaries
Like
Reach
Go
Very
Just
Where
Different
Elderly
Spark
Novel
They Say
Right
Two
If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
Billy Collins
You
People
Walk
Thought
Pen
Those
Out
Record
Detector
Beaches
Something
Poem
More
Write
Counter
Simply
Like
Around
Metal
Agenda
Using
Letter
Resignation
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
Billy Collins
Art
Vision
Be True
Own
True
Like
Also
Sound
Tradition
Artistic
Being
Want
Means
Your
My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
Billy Collins
You
Chapter
Reading
Beginning
Something
Poems
Structures
Tend
Tends
Opening
Like
Making
Sound
Were
End
Move
Middle
Rhetorical
Mean
Novel
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
Billy Collins
Good
Song
Simple
Example
Striking
Complexity
Stead
Emily
Emily Dickinson
Remained
Never
Developed
Like
She
Bows
Within
Persona
Same
Stood
Rhymes
Package
Little
Loyal
Her
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
Billy Collins
Me
People
Wish
Other
Enough
Dramatic
Broad
Range
Pretend
Voice
Poetry
Write
Put
Like
Know
Most
Him
Limited
Motion
Accommodate
Were
Persona
Often
Want
Far
Monologues
I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
Billy Collins
Book
Black
Difficult
Too
Back
One Book
Find
Poems
Poetry
Poets
Mention
Exchange
Disappointing
Like
Without
Go
Lot
Very
Being
Her
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
Billy Corgan
Mother
Losing
Latent
Some
Unresolved
Like
She
Sort
Real
Issue
Left
Up
Done
Childhood
Grow
Grow Up
Her
When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
Billy Corgan
Music
You
Other
Like
Each
Actually
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