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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Music and painting should never be literary, a very subtle distinction according to Renoir. As soon as I try to represent an individual, their physiognomy and attitudes, I become a literary artist.
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The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially… from education, and human conventions.
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I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
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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.
