Larry MacPhail Quotes
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.
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Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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My dad was always at work running a business, so our mom really took care of us. She'd bring us all to our practices, and we all basically played four sports: baseball, hockey, football, and basketball.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
