Craig Sager Quotes
I'm grateful to HBO for telling my story, and I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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The idea of travelling all over the world singing the same songs sounds like hell. How people like Tina Turner still do it with enthusiasm is beyond me.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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I agree with the British Legion that we have a responsibility to support our troops and support their families, particularly when we are asking people to do very difficult and dangerous things for our security.
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I'm grateful to HBO for telling my story, and I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support.
