Crazy Legs (Richard Colón) Quotes
If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I'm an honest guy.
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.
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Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.
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'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'
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Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.
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Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
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I always feel like the freshest boxer going into competitions.
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It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
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My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.
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I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.
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If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.
