Jim Barksdale Quotes
We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
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The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing.
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I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
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Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
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Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
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We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.
