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 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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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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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.
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I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.
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My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
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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.
