Eric Berry Quotes
The instincts and reaction and having to move - that's what football is. You have to learn how to deal with different adjustments, and know how to react to different types of plays. And do it on the fly.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
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Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
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The instincts and reaction and having to move - that's what football is. You have to learn how to deal with different adjustments, and know how to react to different types of plays. And do it on the fly.
