Bob Feller Quotes
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows... it's the life in between. That's all I've got.
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In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
