Drew Pomeranz Quotes
Just trying to go out there and do the same thing I do every time, take it one pitch at a time and give us the best chance to win.
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
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As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
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I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.
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That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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Hey, is this room out of bounds?
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I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.
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I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.
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Just trying to go out there and do the same thing I do every time, take it one pitch at a time and give us the best chance to win.
