Nasser Hussain Quotes
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
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I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
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Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.
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You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.
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Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.
