Jake LaMotta Quotes

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

Jake LaMotta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 10, 1922 - September 19, 2017

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Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

Joe Meno

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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

Jet Li

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There's something about Alan Arkin. Even when he's doing nothing, he makes me laugh. I've always had that reaction to him: he's got a weary world-view that makes him perfectly cast.

John Curran

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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

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There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

Michelle Dockery

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My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.

Michael Pollan

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When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.

Michael Masser

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Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Miriam Toews

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Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience.

DeRay Mckesson

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Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

Derek Jacobi

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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

Alice Hoffman

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You don't have to have a ring on your finger to say, 'I love you.'

Tyra Banks

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