Jon Gruden Quotes
Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
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My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.
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Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.
