Geoffrey Boycott Quotes

Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred.

Geoffrey Boycott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 21, 1940

Topics

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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Andrea Dworkin

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I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

Andrea Martin

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Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

Simon Mawer

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When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.

Tony DiTerlizzi

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The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Romola Garai

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The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

Lucinda Franks

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I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

Jorge M. Perez

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For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

Jon Secada

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There's enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer.

Anne Wojcicki

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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

Augusten Burroughs

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It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

Pilou Asbaek

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I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.

Sergei Lavrov

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