Pat Summerall Quotes
When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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Don't judge your running by your speed.
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Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
