Nellie Fox Quotes
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.
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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 don't look at myself as suffering.
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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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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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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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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 'Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There'.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.
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When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.
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And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
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Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
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It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.
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All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.
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(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.
