Ellis Hobbs Quotes
The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?
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That was probably the highlight of my career. I learned more from him my first few years than probably I have from any individual through my career.
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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.
