Ben Zobrist Quotes
At the end of the day, you can't control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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Collecting is my passion.
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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
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About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.
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I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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At the end of the day, you can't control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
