Adam Gopnik Quotes
Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
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The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
