Blaine Wilson Quotes
Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
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Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
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The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
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Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.
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Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
