Don Mattingly Quotes
I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.
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Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.
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You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.
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Frankly, I find it very odd that, in a population that's more than 50 per cent of women, that Hollywood isn't producing more movies to cater to that audience. The demographic is being grossly underserved, in my opinion.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.
