Jake Peavy Quotes
My eyesight is not good. You guys will see, in games you'll watch, I will have times where I don't see the catcher very well, especially in low-light conditions. I can get to about 20/40. That's about as good as they can get me with the stigmatisms and stuff I have going on.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very impressed with what he did in 'The Hurt Locker.'
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I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
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Today is the day of decision.
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My eyesight is not good. You guys will see, in games you'll watch, I will have times where I don't see the catcher very well, especially in low-light conditions. I can get to about 20/40. That's about as good as they can get me with the stigmatisms and stuff I have going on.
