Lou Brock Quotes
I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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I used to speak Algerian, but I'd lost nearly everything.
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You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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In justice as fairness society is interpreted as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage.
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I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.
