W. P. Kinsella Quotes
At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.
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When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
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Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.
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When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get some walks, but I don't go to the plate thinking of walking.
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After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.
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At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
