Dennis Lillee Quotes
Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?
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There are days when I almost forget that I fought in that war. It was such a long time ago. I was young, so young, so fucking young. And all that's left of my youth is in my head. You know, the head, it's like a map. Not a map that gives you directions, but a map with names on it–names of guys who were killed in the war, names of the people you left behind, names of countries and villages and cities. Names. After all these years, that's all that's left. Names. But no directions. And no way to reach them, no way to get back what you lost.
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Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since.
