Edward Charles Ford (Whitey Ford) Quotes
You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
