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Reggie Jackson Quotes

I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1946

Topics

Society Underdog Represent Our Both

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

Friend Live Best Writing Best Friend

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Building Church House Golden Old

When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

Football Treat Saying Thought Look

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Cool Hair American Problem Dark Boy

It's one thing to entertain, to educate, but to edify, to lift people up, that's - to God be the glory.

Sterling K. Brown

God People Glory Lift Up One Thing

L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.

Suki Waterhouse

Great Back Place London Always Been

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

Fun Hat Doing Old Years Little

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'

Short Artist Equal Fiction Poet Who

I've been very lucky - I've worked consistently, and I haven't had to kiss a lot of people on stage.

Miriam Margolyes

Kiss People Lucky Stage Been Very

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

You Wall London Fair Hang Antiques

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Bruce Springsteen

Life People Believe You Try Outside

While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all.

William Golding

Myself Think Thinking Hobby Grades

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