Jason Giambi Quotes
You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
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I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
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I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?
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You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
