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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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
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It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.
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The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the 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.
