Elgin Baylor Quotes
At times we've had lapses. You're not going to be able to do it every game, night after night. But for the most part, the effort has been there.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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Down time is not the name of the game.
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I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
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It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
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We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
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I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!
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At times we've had lapses. You're not going to be able to do it every game, night after night. But for the most part, the effort has been there.
