A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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From the point of view of technique, I liked there to be internal lines in objects, I mean that instead of circumscribing forms, they animate the insides of things-the inside of formless and non-delimited areas. They function as internal textures and not primarily as contours.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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He had heat like he did the other night (against Northeast). He's about 100 percent now.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
