Elgin Baylor Quotes
It's great. Oh yeah, I remember those days. But they're all behind us. This is fun now.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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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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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.
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Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.
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Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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It's great. Oh yeah, I remember those days. But they're all behind us. This is fun now.
