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Bill Toomey Quotes

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1939

Topics

Sad Moment Victory Wonderful Trip

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Experience Early Piano Lessons Quite

I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.

Feel Sunlight Why Write Question Up

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

Time Battle Edge Play Want Try

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

Age Heart Old Age Problems Someone

'Vikings' is filmed in Ireland, and 400 people get jobs from that show. Their economy is not that good, so I'm proud of what we've done and will do anything to help that show.

Good People Proud Help Done Will

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

Opportunity College Wait Thought You

The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction.

Direction Look Way Mean Always Been

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Funny Goals Chance Achieving Against

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Work Time Looking Thinking Drawing

It's a dream come true as I await the release of my debut single 'Krazy Konnection' with Salim Merchant and then my debut album!

Dream True Single Release Come Then

I've been asked to endorse lots of different pieces of equipment. It's not necessarily that it's an awful thing to be asked to endorse something, because it's inherently a compliment to your skills, your abilities, on a level. But sometimes it's just not the right fit.

Skills Sometimes Compliment Right

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

Business Time Wish Said More I Wish

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