Jacob deGrom Quotes
I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don't know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don't have a deadline. I don't argue with them. That's how I have been raised, and I'm happy with it.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
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The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
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Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
