Karl Marlantes Quotes
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I wish to create trends rather than follow them.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
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I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
