Jerry Coleman Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.
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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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The ballgame is over...in this inning.
