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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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
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I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.
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To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.
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Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
