Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog (Whitey Herzog) Quotes
A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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Novels are longer than life.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.
