Kirsty Gallacher Quotes

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

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• I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Nature
  • Actor
  • Africa

• I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Fiercer

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Loser

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Think
  • Perfection
  • Strive

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
  • America
  • You

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Mistakes

• When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Beginning
  • Drawing

• Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

  

  Hannah Flagg Gould
  • Sports
  • Hands
  • Ocean

• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Art
  • Death
  • Courage

• Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

  

  Kirsty Gallacher
  • Beginning
  • Sports