Hayden Fry (John Hayden Fry) Quotes
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
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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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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are told you'll never amount to anything, etc, the challenges are enormous.
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I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
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My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.
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I love to dance and dance all night long.
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I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.
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I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
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Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.
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I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
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The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
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I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
