Yogi Berra Quotes
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.
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If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.
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I went to New York for Fashion Week and girls showed up waiting to see me. It's funny because there's a group of girls who I actually recognize because they always show up. It's nice and I'm like, 'Hi girls! I recognize your faces!' It's just like a feel-good experience.
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You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
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When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage.
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.
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I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.
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Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.
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Love is making space in your life for someone else.
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They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
