W. P. Kinsella Quotes
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
