Louis Oosthuizen Quotes
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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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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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
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I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.
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If you build your own chair, there is a lot of things that happen. You could probably buy a nice chair for less money than a chair that you built yourself, and it might even look better, but if you build that chair, you're going to take care of it and maintain it because it's your chair. If it breaks, you know how to fix it.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.
