Gary Player Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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There is no one true church.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.
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Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
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The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
