Carl Hubbell Quotes
I slipped and the ball got away from me with nothing on it. Maybe it's lucky it hit Lou, instead of going over the plate.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.
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It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
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I'm lucky. I'm getting older with some directors who are getting older.
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I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with ... Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there’s only so much I can do on my own.
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I slipped and the ball got away from me with nothing on it. Maybe it's lucky it hit Lou, instead of going over the plate.
