Bill James Quotes
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock - to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.
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The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'
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My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.
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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
