Norm Sloan Quotes
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.
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You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
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Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.
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I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.
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Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
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Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
