Ray Allen Quotes
It comes down to consistency-if you want to be a great shooter, you have to shoot the same way every time.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
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I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?
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But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
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For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.
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I secretly wish I had experienced advertising in the 'Mad Men' period.
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I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.
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Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.
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I really admire Mark Ruffalo and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Vincent Gallo, for example, who writes and directs and acts in his own films.
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The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
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When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
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Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.
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Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.
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Blogging requires consistency, and you need to have some time on your hands, which I don't really have.
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It comes down to consistency-if you want to be a great shooter, you have to shoot the same way every time.
