John Madden Quotes
If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'
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So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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The country has double standards - it's obsessed with fair skin on one hand, but if the woman is white, she is expected to be loose-moraled.
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If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.
