Walter Alston Quotes

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

Walter Alston

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 1, 1911 - October 1, 1984

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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

John Cusack

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People don't need to feel scared about a leather pant. Think of it as a jean alternative: it's the same thing. It's almost like they're your yoga pants, but they look chic.

Meghan Markle

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I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

Michael Douglas

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I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.

John Zorn

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I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

Stockard Channing

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I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

Tony Parsons

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I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

Tom Drury

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I know some people say, 'You must have life balance.' I don't have that.

Molly Holzschlag

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I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job.

Dawn Olivieri

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If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early.

Willie Geist

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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron

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You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

Pedro Almodovar

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