Arthur Wing Pinero Quotes
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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I've always liked new writing.
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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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We are working on the basis it is a kidnapping.
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Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.
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The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
