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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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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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
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I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.
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Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
