Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.
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It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
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When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.
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Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.
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Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
