Dwight Gooden Quotes
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.
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Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one's stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.
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In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.
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I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.
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Finding the voice of a character, no matter who it is - from Black Widow to Han Solo - is the first and most important hurdle for me to cross in any work of fiction.
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You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
