Frank Shorter Quotes
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I can live without football. There are more important things in life.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
