Melky Cabrera Quotes
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
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The sound itself, the production, is of such great importance that it has become an integrated part of the composition.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.
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When you are 20 years old, you are immature.
