Allan Border Quotes
There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
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Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
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You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
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I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.
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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
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Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of
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Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
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Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we've never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
