Mia Hamm Quotes
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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I love to perform live.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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'It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.'
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
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If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
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New York is my, you know, second hometown.
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I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
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The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.
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As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.
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People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
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I dream of moving to India, or Pakistan, and becoming a cabdriver.
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When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
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Oh happy, (if his happiness he knows)The Countrey Swain! on whom kind Heav'n bestowsAt home all Riches that wise Nature needs;Whom the just Earth with easie plenty feeds.
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It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
