John Garfield Quotes
I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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Golf is not easy.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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All of us grow.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
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I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.
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I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.
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When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.
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I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
