Earl Weaver Quotes
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
