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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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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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 don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
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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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Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
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The blockchain is to money what SMTP is to email. It's an open way to move value around. Every existing player in this space - not just Venmo but also Google and Facebook and others - are all closed; they all want to work just within their own walled garden.
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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.
