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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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
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I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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It's great. Oh yeah, I remember those days. But they're all behind us. This is fun now.
