Christy Mathewson Quotes
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
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Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.
