Ion Tiriac Quotes
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.
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I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
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The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Right now, we all have decent jobs. We're not, like, struggling artists trying to scrape by.
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Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world.
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He made some plays, we came up short on defense. That's the bottom line. There are no excuses. I'm not blaming the coaches or blaming the calls.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
