Jim Bouton Quotes
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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Making films can be very lonely, and that's the part I don't like. I don't want to feel like I'm pressing 'pause' on my personal life to make a movie. I want to feel like I'm still creating relationships and things are moving forward.
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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
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1982 is the year when we want to see a lot of left-wing Labour-controlled authorities. The people that have been selected now as candidates tend to be politically experienced in community politics or the Labour movement. In no way are they people coming off the streets and becoming Labour councillors, which is what has happened in the past.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
