Vin Scully Quotes
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
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I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow.
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
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It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.
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He liked her; it was as simple as that.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
