Charlie Adam Quotes
Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability
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The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
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The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.
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That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
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Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.
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Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.
