"I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one."

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Source : "Billy Crudup Bares All". Parade Interview, parade.com. March 3, 2009.

Billy Crudup

#Hero Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.”
“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.”
“I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?”
“Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.”
“The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.”
“Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)”
“An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.”

Source : "The Pause: An Underestimated Element in Poetry". poemsoutloud.net. April 14, 2009.
“I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.”

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