Gene Mauch Quotes
I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Quotes to Explore
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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Love is more than one thing.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
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They had the best of the conditions and we worked really hard and outplayed them, it was a top win.
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I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.
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I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
