Constance Rourke Quotes
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’
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We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
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All managers are under pressure. It's our life, always. It's about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me - the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!
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I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
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There are lots of things to like about being Eastern Orthodox - incense, liturgies, all the baklava you can eat - but you know what I like best? None of that stupid 'women's ministry' stuff.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies.
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In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
