Archie Manning Quotes
I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.
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I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
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I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.
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The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
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I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.
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It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.
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In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.
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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
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If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live.
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There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.
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So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.
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I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.
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I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.
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I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity.
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When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out how to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
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I can't imagine him not coaching. I just can't imagine it. It really puts everything in perspective for me. I never saw that day coming.
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My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.
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I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.
