Quentin L. Cook Quotes
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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All of us grow.
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Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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We can't let Donald Trump put us at risk.
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I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.
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Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
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Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those
