Bill Buford Quotes
The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.
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For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.
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The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
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I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
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Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
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The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
