Bob Stoops Quotes
Brent's an excellent coach, so if that's something that goes in a positive direction, I'm all for it.
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
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I've made my career, made money in real estate and real estate development.
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I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.
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I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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Brent's an excellent coach, so if that's something that goes in a positive direction, I'm all for it.
