Bailey Whitfield Diffie (Whitfield Diffie) Quotes
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
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I get depressed at airports.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
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Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.
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Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.
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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
