Alastair Cook Quotes
When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.
Quotes to Explore
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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On the fifth day following the murder of the ship's officers, land was sighted by the lookout. Whether island or mainland, Black Michael did not know, but he announced to Clayton that if investigation showed that the place was habitable he and Lady Greystoke were to be put ashore with their belongings.
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My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.
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Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.
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When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.
