Jack Kent Cooke Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I always watch the work I do.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
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Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.
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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
