Gary Player Quotes
It's a strange game, ... Today you shoot 66. Tomorrow you shoot 73. It changes within hours.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
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I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.
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Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.
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Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
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It's a strange game, ... Today you shoot 66. Tomorrow you shoot 73. It changes within hours.
