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Fran Tarkenton Quotes

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1940

Topics

Business Time Football Start Special

Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.

Fire You Security Go Need Coach

Fermat said he had a proof.

Said Proof He Had

Most comics point out what everyone else is thinking but hadn't thought of verbalizing. I guess, in a way, that makes most comics seers. It just depends in what category - some choose to be the seers of relationships, some are seers of racial issues, and some are seers of political issues.

Thinking Thought Political Choose

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

Life Great Together World Process

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there's no writer's block allowed in a newsroom.

Michael Connelly

Work Experience Day Creative Me

What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.

John Ralston Saul

Free You Argument Black-And-White

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise.

Suki Waterhouse

School Me Singing Acting Naughty

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

People Me Things Expect Different

Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness.

Life Time Darkness Interesting Long

My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.

Brain Slow Lazy Like Between Cross

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

Good Effort People Clothes Acting

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

Family Home Morning Hope Time Night

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