Ernie Banks Quotes
I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
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I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.
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I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.
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I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
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I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
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My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'
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If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!
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Toward the end of the '90s, it got pretty rough for me - a lot of emotional unrest and problems with my relationships. That affected my career.
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Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.
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I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
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I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.
