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Sid Waddell Quotes

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: british
Birth: August 10, 1940 - August 11, 2012

Topics

Trying Down Kangaroo Like Pin

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

Business Best You Sometimes Letters

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

I Am Start Game Story Giving Rules

Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

Respect Soul Competition Me Think

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

Think Down Earth Way Down To Earth

To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

Life Positive Mother You Artist Way

Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.

Long Know Now Alzheimer Brains Most

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

Life Business Art Blame Cold Bad

When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

Best People Tough Escape Movies Pay

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Mathematics Me Logic Two Background

My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt that he didn't quite know how to enjoy them. But I wasn't aware of those things then. So many of my childhood memories involve him. All the excursions into science were shaped by his knowledge and enthusiasm.

Robert F. Engle

Father Mother Son Knowledge Memories

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

You Gay Only Italian French

I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.

Planning Sometimes Say Twist Crowd

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