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Related We've been so close so often. We finally earned one. Maybe we brightened it up for Sam Rayburn. MARK PETERSON This has been a season of ups and downs. I had mono for more than a month and it was frustrating bei... LAURA FALKENBERG It's probably more gratifying to them because of what they've been through, not that it's been their... MIKE DUNLEAVY Yeah, it was a long time. It's been frustrating for me since I've been back in the rotation. It does... GLENDON RUSCH Our aim is not to prevent the mill from reopening, but rather to make sure that the paper mill opera... KEN KRAMER Andrea was playing on one leg and Sam is sicker than a dog. Our depth at center was a lot shallower ... STEVE GARNER The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to f... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fred's 100 percent. He has been 100 percent for a while. We thought it was in our best interest to m... BYRON LEFTWICH I've slowly worked my way back in. I don't feel like I was ever out of shape. Being off for that mon... JODI HOWELL I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp. LATRELL SPREWELL I was mostly concerned about her mentally being able to come back and accept that she's not going to... ENOCH BOROZINSKI It has been really frustrating, ... Any time you come to a new team and you don't start with everybo... FRED SMOOT I've been fortunate all my life. I was born into a Christian family and able to stay out of jail. I'... BYRON NELSON I know I definitely would rather have been playing, but it was kind of a blessing in disguise. I'm m... JEFF FAINE I don't think it was that. I think it was just the fact that he was back playing, period. I'm sure 1... MIKE HOLMGREN Nobody has been killed or seriously injured yet, but that's the reason we're doing the recall to mak... HAL STRATTON I wasn't playing that well and I may have been a little scared in the beginning. But then I wanted t... GINA SUAREZ During an entire life if a person had never been able to save an injured living being like an animal... CHANDRABABU V.S. Sure. You would have liked (more production). Rickey has practiced well and is getting in shape. Tha... MIKE STOOPS I can tell you I am very happy because this was one of my goals in life. I have been here so long, a... CARLOS MARIN This is my third year [on stage], and for the past two years I have been part of the ensemble. I lov... AMANDA ORTIZ I'm really disappointed. I've been training for so long and just for that, and not to be able to com... ERIK GUAY The greatest thing about it is that I killed two birds with one stone. I haven't been able to get th... KYLE MARTINO That was the game where I just couldn't do it anymore. There is a difference between being injured a... DONOVAN MCNABB I took a week off last weekend. This weekend I need to make sure I'm back in race shape and back to ... LACLAIRE CARTER It's frustrating not being able to get enough done in the time we have to do it. And it's frustratin... DOUG BARFIELD I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last coup... CHRIS ANSTEY I have never been more terrified in my life than when Dick Cheney whipped out that gun. I was sure I... DAVID GREGORY Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD One of the things that this team has been able to do is really dedicate itself to playing great team... JIM LARRANAGA Peter has been great with me, working me to get back in shape and get fit and get comfortable playin... ALECKO ESKANDARIAN I really had to get over not being able to walk for a week and then not being able to run for months... ERIN LIPPIE He's done everything that you ask an All-Star to do. It was definitely disappointing for his peers n... ANTAWN JAMISON My sisters have always been supportive of what I've done, except for playing football. Because I got... BOB BRUNO I'm really looking forward to getting some of this rust off of me, getting back into game shape and ... JOHN ABRAHAM I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from t... ASHTON SHEPHERD (The officials) never had it under control. It was very disappointing and very frustrating. It was c... BETHANY IRWIN When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sport... ERIC SWALWELL Oh yeah, that was on my mind. I was thinking how it would have been if I were playing for the Red So... BERNIE WILLIAMS That had been one of my goals, since I was a freshman. For me to have a good game like that and to h... ALLIE WOODS I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a ... ANNE SWEENEY I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to hav... CINDY MARGOLIS One woman was seriously injured and later died in the hospital while 20 or 21 passengers have been i... ISHAQ KHAKWANI We went forward by two goals during the first period. At that moment, we should have been more preci... VILLE NIEMINEN It was a much more difficult win than any of my others but its nicer when you really have to fight f... KIMI RAIKKONEN One of the goals is to make sure we have the most skilled workers and to make sure we increase oppor... CHRIS BENTLEY Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI This is a disappointing and sad day for me and my wife, and my family. I would like to make it very ... JOHN DALEY There's no question we have to do that to make ends meet. But it's also a good opportunity for our p... BILL GRAY Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's very disappointing to give up soft goals. It is just a frustrating way to start a game. ANDY CUMBO It's real important to get him back. We lost [Paul Grasmanis to injury], and we've been relying on a... HOLLIS THOMAS For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I... LARRY FITZGERALD These seniors and this team deserved better than this. All 10 games that we lost were just like this... BAILEY HARRIS It was frustrating because I thought I had some momentum. But I know what (Arena) is looking for, an... BRIAN CHING He needed to pass 24 hours for the year to compete in January and he needed to take 15 hours this fa... TIM SIEGEL Last weekend I didn't see any evidence of us being able to stand in and compete. But this weekend I ... BRIAN CLEARY They've been our one and two since last year, and we need them to get back in shape. I thought Krist... DAN CORBIN It's always hard. I've been through this before. I was just working hard and waiting for the day tha... KATIE MEINHARDT I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be crea... DR. DRE The volume of lost production will be significantly greater than that lost under Ivan. Not one compa... FADEL GHEIT I've seen more consumer problems resolved because of these sites than there ever could have been. Bu... JAMES ALEXANDER It was more of a mixed market than anything. The overall tone of the market has been sloppy It's dis... GREG NIE Where was Sam? It hit her full force then, the shocking realization. Was this how Sam felt? Was... MICHAEL GRANT I feel that the 200 IM is his signature event and he deserves to be able to do it without a 200 back... BOB BOWMAN The ones who have been here have been doing more in practice than they would normally. Sometimes the... BUBBA DAVIS I'd been playing these dames like Rosie, and Katy, and Susie and Maisie for over 25 years. I thought... ANN SOTHERN It's a frustrating rule but necessary to ensure players do not get injured in the scrum, which has l... KEITH JONES I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me. FRITZ SCHOLDER I actually have been hitting good shots. I'm playing OK. I hit a couple of shots I was lucky to get ... PHIL MICKELSON If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chan... JIM COURIER They go down and throw, make sure their arms stay in good shape. Tim and I have been coaching togeth... JEFF LAING The most frustrating part was the last 10 minutes. Letting up at the end of the game was disappointi... LANCE LATTIN One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that th... ANDREW TOBIAS It was crazy. I spent more than one night in my car so that I would be the first in the home on sign... DAVE ARNOLD It's just been four frustrating years here, and it's time for me to move on. I still feel like this ... DWAYNE GARRICK It's a lot more pressure this year. There's a lot of expectations and there's a lot of seniors and f... JOE GAITHER I was willing to do anything, just to be able to walk. I'm getting a lot more credits than I ever wo... BRANDI MCCABE Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps. BO JACKSON I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H... CHRISTINA AGUILERA It's really has made quite a difference. The main thing is that being able to participate in the com... BOB GREGORY I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are... MARISA MILLER Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million... TOM CHATFIELD It's a dream come true to be playing against them now. I can't wait to show them what I can do. I wa... DIEGO FORLAN I have been able to expand my program and do things I wouldn't be able to do in another school. SANDY RAYANNIC I was never satisfied with just being here and being the starting quarterback, ... I always wanted t... BRETT FAVRE When I went up to Michigan State, its presentation was more aggressive than Kent State and academics... DAVID WILLIAMS I think that as I came back from the D league as a started practicing, I started getting focused and... GERALD GREEN It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every ... MACKENZIE DAVIS I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is n... NOSTRADAMUS I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me. FRITZ SCHOLDER It's disappointing, but I was hoping the show was going to be edgier than it was, ... It didn't work... ANDREW KENNEDY And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seein... BLACK ELK I have been in and out of shape for 20 years. I couldn't find the time. There was just no energy to ... CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was s... G-EAZY I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a l... ETHAN SUPLEE It is more important to get on the ice than to do my testing. I'm sure if I was 40 pounds overweight... ANDREW RAYCROFT I got my elbow injured while playing in the singles during the Bangalore Open. I have been carrying ... SANIA MIRZA I don't want to talk about any goals. My goal was to make the playoffs before the season. And I've b... JAROMIR JAGR
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SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. 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But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b... SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an... SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ... SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. 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SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings. SAM KINISON I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ... SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo... SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild. SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized. SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'... SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers. SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order. SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion. SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change. SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth. SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. SAM KINISON In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up.... SAM KINISON Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl... SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit... SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&... SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it! SAM KINISON You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no... SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. SAM KEEN A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ... SAM KEEN Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr... SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p... SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you... SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman... SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren... SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe... SAM KEAN Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili... 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