Anthony Swofford Quotes
When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
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I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.
