W. P. Kinsella Quotes
I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
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I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
