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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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
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The harder I practiced, the luckier I got.
