Jon Lester Quotes
You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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I really want to write, and it's the only thing I'm good at.
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God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
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One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
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You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.
