Sheryl Swoopes Quotes
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.
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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
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One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
