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" You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it. "
D. B. Sweeney
Your
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Luck
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" When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner. "
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" I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts. "
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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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" Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome. "
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" If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks. "
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" I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there. "
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" If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone. "
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" I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career. "
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" I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me. "
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" I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male. "
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" The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned. "
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" DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does. "
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Job
Great
" I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to. "
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Work
Like
More
" All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content. "
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Like
Great
Create
" 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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Stage
Empty
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" 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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" Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something. "
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" Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make. "
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Particularly
Hard
Make
" I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing. "
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Touch
Support
Band
" I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can. "
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Fun
Good
" 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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" As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me. "
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" I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat. "
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Opinion
American
Great
" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "
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Everything
I Think
Needs
" I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia. "
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" I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want. "
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Rights
Want
Change
" 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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People
Movies
Money
" I love Vanna White as much as the next guy. "
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Love
Guy
Much
" 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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" I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script. "
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