A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.
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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
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My private life became public.
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We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.
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My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
