"One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without having to be in the public eye yourself. I guess that's not completely true. If you're lucky - and I have been - there are book tours and lectures. I don't have stage fright, and I enjoy meeting people, so that's easy and enjoyable, but it's not a constant, and it's not celebrity."

-- Debra Dean

#Nice Quotes #Moving Quotes #Book Quotes

“Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.”
“There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.”
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”
“The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.”
“A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press
“Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.”
“Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.”

Source : "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.
“Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.”

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