Chauncey Billups Quotes

Magic was always my favorite. I think Jordan was the best player ever, but Magic was my personal favorite.

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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Good
  • Women
  • Violence

• Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nice
  • Should
  • Along

• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Book
  • King

• You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.

  

  Feist
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Support

• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Understand
  • Find

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Career
  • Research
  • Going

• When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Doing

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• As quoted in ''HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP.' Differences between magic and art: None', by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).

  

  Alan Moore
  • Up
  • Art
  • Magic

• The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Work
  • Magic

• My grandson, Max, who is an all state lacrosse player, once gave me some lacrosse advice: A limp pass is like a limp dick; it doesn't get the job done. I think the same can be said about limp writing.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Job

• We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.

  

  Darren Fletcher
  • World
  • Real
  • Player

• Magic was always my favorite. I think Jordan was the best player ever, but Magic was my personal favorite.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Player
  • Magic