Bill Toomey Quotes
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
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Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
