Gary Sheffield Quotes
I'm getting on top of the plate like I did last year. I'm just trying to compensate and make adjustments. Running, I'm pretty much about half speed. That's about all I got.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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All I've done all my life is disobey.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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When a family film is done well, there's a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.
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I like to think that people are buying Emilia Wickstead because they want to keep it in their wardrobe as an investment piece; she's not just buying it because it's of the moment or what's currently in season.
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
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I quite like androgyny.
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I'm getting on top of the plate like I did last year. I'm just trying to compensate and make adjustments. Running, I'm pretty much about half speed. That's about all I got.
