Lajos Portisch Quotes
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.
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I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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Envy aims very high.
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
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I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.
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When a role model tells you it's going to be OK, it's going to be OK.
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They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.
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Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.
