D. B. Sweeney Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You are just your intelligence.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
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I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
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At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.
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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
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I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.
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You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
