Gary Player Quotes
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
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I'm there to support my kids no matter what happens. I just do the best I can, just like anybody else would for their family.
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I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.
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I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.
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Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
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I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'
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I'm a crybaby.
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I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
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The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
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The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.
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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
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The harder I practiced, the luckier I got.
