Mark McGwire Quotes
I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.
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Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
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Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.
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How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
