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" Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do. "
D. B. Sweeney
Hire
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" I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark. "
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" You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down. "
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" A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films. "
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" I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show. "
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" I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work. "
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" I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should. "
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Rock
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" When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible. "
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Possible
Need
Fat
" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "
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Gretzky
Velvet
Electricity
" Say something personal, not from a publicist. "
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Say
Something
Publicist
" Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make. "
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Particularly
Hard
Make
" More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't. "
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Living
Find
Way
" It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around. "
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Have Fun
Done
Film
" In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.' "
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Going
You
Move
" I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy. "
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Me
Know
Day
" I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids. "
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Thought
Sports
Path
" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "
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Everything
I Think
Needs
" I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent. "
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Island
Up
Long
" I try to keep a low profile. "
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Try
Low
Keep
" I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel. "
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Problem
Me
Change
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You
Understand
" Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance. "
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Chance
Give
" I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. "
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Empty
Film
" I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me. "
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New
Christian
Experience
" With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold. "
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Lose
More
Red