Ian Botham Quotes
If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I love girl power.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
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We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.
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I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
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What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
