Howard Staunton Quotes
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
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Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.
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I have always seen Drogba as the example to follow in terms of a centre-forward. He was strong and scored loads of goals, and he was a quality player.
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Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.
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Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.
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You can never fall in love with a team.
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I really like the stuff that Showtime puts out. I think that 'Homeland' is phenomenal. I think 'Dexter' is amazing.
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.
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To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.
