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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To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.
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Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.
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When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
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There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
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I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.