Sid Waddell Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
