Carl Sandburg Quotes
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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I love Chicago.
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Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
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Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.
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I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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My mother and I lived in an apartment complex in a neighborhood. So there was a gaggle of kids. Every day after school, we'd just meet up in a field, and some game would be chosen, Wiffle ball or tag, and you'd play that until the streetlights came on.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
