Barry Lyga Quotes
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet.
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I took a swing early and I let it go pretty good, and I felt fine, ... After that, I took my chances.
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As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.
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Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'
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I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.
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Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.
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He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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It all rolls up and I think in the final analysis somewhere it's going to hit the consumer.
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.
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I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
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Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
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There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
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When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.
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I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
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You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
