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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How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
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The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.
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Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.
