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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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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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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Without changing my style and who I am, they Trent Willmon and Dan Couch and Dale Oliver know how to draw those things out of me. It was a really cool experience on this record, because I tried really hard on the writing to make sure that I wasn't just writing it just like I wanted to.
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The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
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The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe.
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I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.
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Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphenated identity - about loving and hating my world, about both belonging and not belonging to the community I came from.
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I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
