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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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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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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The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction.
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Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
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It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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It was a tough deal for us for him to get hurt. So what we're going to try to do is make the best decision.
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If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.
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No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.
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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.
