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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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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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 personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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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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At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
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Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.
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They made me look like I was 2 years old.
