David Fizdale Quotes
I'm not afraid to coach guys. But I am going to coach them to win, and I am going to hold them to a high standard.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking.
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I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.
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I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.
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I'm not afraid to coach guys. But I am going to coach them to win, and I am going to hold them to a high standard.
