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Ian Astbury
"I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams."
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Ian Astbury
#Sports Quotes
#New York Quotes
#Team Quotes
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“The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.”
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“As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.”
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“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
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“My protagonists, male and female, are me.”
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“Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.”
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“There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a crash which occurred in July, 1947, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico; written and videotaped testimony from several first-hand witnesses who are respected military officers have been obtained.”
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“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
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“For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.”
