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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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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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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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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You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.
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I think I have it all. But I won't say that the credit for all that goes to me. I think the credit for all that goes to everybody around me. I mean, I have it all because my entire family is so cooperative. I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there. So, I think it's, you know, in a way, a two-way street.
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In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'
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You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
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I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.
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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.
