Earl Weaver Quotes
I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not coming back to play.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
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In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.
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I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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If you're feeling a little down, you're never fully dressed without a strong heel. But only if you're depressed - if you need a pick-me-up.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
