Lou Boudreau Quotes
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.
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I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.
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The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.
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Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
