Geoff Petrie Quotes
The team was going into transition. The team that we had could not continue to exist. Because of age, injury, it could not get to that same level. It had to change. I wish this team could have been frozen in time for 10 years, but that's not the reality.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
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I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.
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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
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The team was going into transition. The team that we had could not continue to exist. Because of age, injury, it could not get to that same level. It had to change. I wish this team could have been frozen in time for 10 years, but that's not the reality.
