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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Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
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I'm good at what I do. I'm really, really good at what I do, and I'm not saying this with any level of arrogance.
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Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.
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Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.
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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.
