Pat Riley Quotes
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.
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I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
