Jack Grealish Quotes
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
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I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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I grew up with reggae music.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him Wally Pfister. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.
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Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.
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I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.
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It's a big decision to pick what country I'm going to play for.
