Bill Clegg Quotes
William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
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Coffee is my water now.
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
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Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
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William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore.
