Allison Silverman Quotes
I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.
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I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
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For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The 'Magician of Riga' rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.
Garry Kasparov -
He's been seasoned, ... Hopefully we've got a young guy who's on the come.
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I don't think it's as easy as people make it out to be. You also have to protect in there. You're looking through your legs and trying to get something back there 15 yards to a certain spot. Your head's down and there's someone coming who just gets a free whack at you. I don't think there's anything easy about that deal.
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We fought hard all day and kept slugging, ... I was proud of our guys because they've got great heart. They found a way to win the ballgame.
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Our heart goes out to everybody down there, ... They've got to do whatever they've got to do. We're all praying for everybody down there. There's been a number of our players affected by it, and you just hope that somehow such a tragedy somehow we'll get that all squared away as quick as we can. So I would say whatever they've got to do, the Saints . . . I just feel bad for them.
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It's something we're trying to gain information about and letting them talk and visit and seeing what situations may be out there. And we're doing the same thing. We'll see if there's a fit. It has to make sense for us and make sense for both sides.
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I'm just happy for him that he is playing well, ... A lot of times up here you go through tough things. At any one time in the NFL, you're going to have a number of players on a team who are going through tough situations. A lot of times the way they handle it is a measure of someone's character. I think that was Mark's situation last year and Patrick's situation now. The way you go through the tough times leads you to improvement and great performance in the future. It's a test of character when you go through that.
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If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.
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You have to perform a balancing act. You don't want to forsake talented upside players for the future who may not be ready to deliver today. If you don't have those guys in the pipeline, your well may run dry.
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The scouting community always looked at those guys as European players, until now. That may change.
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How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.
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People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.
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I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.
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Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.
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To generous souls every task is noble.
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The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time
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Hearing "can't" dares a person to find a workaround. It's a basic psychological theory called reactance - telling someone "no" just makes them want it more.
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I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.
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I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.
