Doug Collins Quotes

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Like
  • Reach

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
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  • Write

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• I studied Morse code.

  

  Adam Driver
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• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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  • Who

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago

• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Chinese
  • Tomorrow

• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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  • Always
  • Legacy

• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Different
  • Attitude

• In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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  • Good
  • Opportunity

• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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  • Art
  • Small

• In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Object
  • Scorn

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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• I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

  

  Jimmy Smits
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  • Mother
  • Guy

• People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?

  

  Jason Bateman
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• The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

  

  Doug Collins
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