Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.Red Smith
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
Vikas Swarup -
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Harold Rosenberg -
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Umberto Eco -
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Walt Disney
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
Mahershala Ali -
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
Zooey Deschanel -
You can't be in love with a Google search.
Taylor Swift -
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Samuel Butler -
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
Iman -
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
Eavan Boland -
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
Tadashi Yanai -
I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
Walter Alston -
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner -
Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
Haley Joel Osment
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
Ian McShane -
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons -
Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.
Camila Alves -
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein -
I never had that moment, because we’ve been shocked and surprised and happy at every level along the way. But I’d say the first time I noticed that feeling was literally our second show.
Ken Casey -
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith