Bob Cousy Quotes
Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
