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 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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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
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Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.
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Irrigate crops at short intervals and apply light irrigation especially in the evening.
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This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
