Chase Utley Quotes
I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.
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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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New York is my favorite city.
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My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?
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Aliens are definitely real.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.
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Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.
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I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.