Dave McPherson Quotes
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
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If you want success, be unique.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
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Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
