A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I think I need security.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.
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The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...
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But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.