Frank Waters Quotes
From the beginning, there was going to be a reshuffling of the deck and we were going to be playing lot of young kids. I knew we might struggle early, but if we could develop as we went, we might be a good team come tournament time. Based on the way we've played the last couple of weeks, I think we've done that.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.
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I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
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It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.
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From the beginning, there was going to be a reshuffling of the deck and we were going to be playing lot of young kids. I knew we might struggle early, but if we could develop as we went, we might be a good team come tournament time. Based on the way we've played the last couple of weeks, I think we've done that.
