Gary Lineker Quotes
I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
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Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
