Dominique Wilkins Quotes
Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Time was God's first creation.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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We need to just stay in the moment and stay in our routine.
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It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
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I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
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Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
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Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.
