Nolan Ryan (Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr.) Quotes

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

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• There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Character
  • Movies

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lights

• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Dying
  • Unknown

• I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Man
  • Past
  • Cool

• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Small

• You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Perfect
  • Movies
  • Look

• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Objects
  • Acts
  • Sensory

• I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Treat
  • Dignity

• And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Genius

• The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • World
  • Ocean
  • Fish

• The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Important
  • Happiness

• It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Water
  • Environment
  • Air

• Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Country
  • Day

• My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Love
  • Husband
  • Emphasis

• My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• Civility is a choice.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Choice
  • Civility

• I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Life

• 'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Son

• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

  

  David Cone
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Career

• I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.'

  

  Kirby Smart
  • Career

• I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

  

  Nolan Ryan
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  • Angels