Billy Sunday Quotes
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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'receive this Knowledge and know God within yourself. That pure energy, God, is within your own heart'.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
