George Brett Quotes
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I never read the tabloids.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
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I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
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I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.
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Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.
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I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
