Ben Zobrist Quotes
There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
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My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'
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I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
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When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.
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There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.
