Steve Nash (Stephen John Nash) Quotes
You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I love action movies.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
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'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
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I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.
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I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.
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The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
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Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
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One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.
