Jack Nicklaus Quotes
I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
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Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.
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There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
