Ted Shackelford Quotes
One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
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After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
