Piper Laurie Quotes
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.
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China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
