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.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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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!
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I studied Morse code.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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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.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.
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The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
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If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
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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.
