Nick Bollettieri (Nicholas James Bollettieri) Quotes
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
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Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means.
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My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.
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'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
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You can't be patient if you're not strong.
