Arnold Palmer Quotes
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
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Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.
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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
