John Sheffield Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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Besides winning, the most fun thing is getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.
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The dyslexic: Everyman as cubist.
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it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.
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I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.
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Love is the salt of life.
