Miguel Cabrera (Miggy) Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
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The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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I believed I could play in the NBA.
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Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.
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My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.
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You've got to be careful of guys trying to chop-block you. You know, running backs, the receivers. You've got to just hope that your knees are fine and you can avoid those chop blocks.
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It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.
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They got their veterans back on the floor in the second quarter and started running their screen-and-rolls. They were able to play some defense and shut us down after we made a run in the second quarter.
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Anthony's a gambler. Sometimes the play works. It's not a perfect science.
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I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.
