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 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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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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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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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
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I'm from Denver, and basketball there isn't near what it is out in Chicago or Detroit or L.A. There weren't that many great players to come out of the area; I was the best player in high school. I was Player of the Year four straight years for the state. As a freshman, I was State Player of the Year; I was Mr. Everything, so I was a phenom.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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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.
