Nick Foles (Nicholas Edward Foles) Quotes
Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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Baseball is a team game.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
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I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
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You know I'm weak on good looks.
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I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.
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Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.
