Jackie Robinson Quotes
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I'm very attracted to Indians.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
