Norm Sloan Quotes
I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.
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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
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We realised that the safer creative people and craftsman feel, the better the collection they produce. If they do a better collection, my revenues grow. It is not easy to attach figures, but it is what happens.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
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We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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When Mark was playing last year, we weren't as good personnel-wise as we are now.
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If you're not a player, it's hard to get into this league. You need a small opportunity that you turn into a bigger opportunity.
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Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter . . . Yet at a deeper level matter and consciousness are actually inseparable and interwoven , just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.
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I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
