Edward Charles Ford (Whitey Ford) Quotes
We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they are put in a box.
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I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
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Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.
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One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
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"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
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We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.
