Bob McKenzie Quotes
If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
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The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.
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If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.
