Dan Wakefield Quotes
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love.
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When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
