Stuart Appleby Quotes
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
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I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.
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Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home.
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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.
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Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.
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...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature. Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.
