Bill Parcells Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
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Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness.
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I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.
