Jim Kelly Quotes

I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

Jim Kelly

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1960

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Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.

Joel Salatin

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I know how to be a gracious loser.

Jennifer Palmieri

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I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Sophia Myles

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On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.

Tracy Morgan

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I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.

Tom Stoppard

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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

Liz Phair

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Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

Debra Wilson

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I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

Daya

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What I wanted to do is put forth, musically, the idea that there's hope that we can change the system.

Boots Riley

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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Earley

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