Gary Sheffield Quotes
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.
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Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
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They made me look like I was 2 years old.
