Mary Pilon Quotes
One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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They who drink beer will think beer.
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The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.
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Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
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I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.
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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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The Croatians don't play well without the ball.
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One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.
