Bob Wickman Quotes
It's fun. When we win, we don't have to look at the standings. When we lose, we have to hope that someone else lost.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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Once you sign on the dotted line, in terms of a contract with a musical, it's a huge commitment. When you're younger, that's fine; you can take it on, and I still go out, and I still sing 15-20 songs - and I can do that - a night.
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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.
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A big part of the fun of working on Superman has been coming up with new characters and concepts to toss in, helping to design their costumes, things like that. And I spent ages coming up with the name 'Fortress of Solidarity,' so I want to get as much use out of it as I can!
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Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.
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I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.
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It's fun. When we win, we don't have to look at the standings. When we lose, we have to hope that someone else lost.
