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 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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I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
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I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
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During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
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The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.
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Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.
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It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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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.
