Jon Gruden Quotes
I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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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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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.
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At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!
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You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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All I can do is go out and play as great as I know how. I'm a professional. I didn't come here to just go through the motions, even when you're out of the playoff chase.
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I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
