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Related We're going to have to be ready to play because it looks like Denver's got a really good team up the... JOE PANNUNZIO This gives us a good start. We feel a lot better winning than losing. We think there is going to be ... BILL HARRELSON All I know is this feels better than last year. It came down to the end again, six-tenths of a secon... MARK SHOFF The meet really looked worse than it was. We had to count a full point in falls, while [Stanford] ha... JOHN SPINI Weve got a lot more than a lot of people. IAN WILLIAMSON So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER We are coming into state with some momentum because we just played a very good game against Wray in ... MARK SHARPLEY I know we can win this meet. The coaches say they have a really good squad this year, a little bit s... BRIELLE WHITE Well, it was my first experience to pitch in the game with the world championship on the line. I was... DAISUKE MATSUZAKA The state meet is going to be a beauty. I think it comes down to Homestead, Madison Memorial and us.... BOB JENKYNS I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve... AARON KATZ You know, I warmed up, ... I didn't really move a lot. It was about a 10-minute warm-up. When I got ... ANDY RODDICK Nobody is ever going to be perfect but we've got some holes to patch and we've got to patch them qui... ED HARTWELL A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I think Detroit is overall a better team than they were last year, and last year Cleveland State pla... TIM BAUER I feel a lot more pressure this year. I know there are going to be a lot of eyes on me. FRANK MOLINARO I think he's better than 38 percent. He's got a nice touch and a good feel from the line. DAVE CALLOWAY I don't know if it's really fearlessness, ... but he's got a real good seat-of-the-pants feel. A lot... CARL EDWARDS I was two-tenths of a second away from going to state. MITCH BAKER I know I've never had a track team score over 200 points in an eight-team meet like that. It makes y... BILL HARRELSON I put up great numbers, better than a lot of players who got called up around the majors. A lot of t... DMITRI YOUNG To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads scr... AMY WINEHOUSE I know that if we're going to beat McNeese State, we've got to be better than we were against Alabam... JEFF BOWER This is hopefully going to be a good model for other corners of the state. I think the state can eas... BILL DUEY I like it better this way. Lighter practices, and it's really good because we're mainly focusing on ... SKYLER GREEN I would be better off alone on Mars than here on Earth. My middle name should be, Ambivalent, becaus... BOBBY W. MILLER I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with... AARON YOO I don't feel good anymore with this skin... probably a new title... a new chapter.. something new wi... DEYTH BANGER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 1... AARON JOHNSON I feel like we've got a good mixture of guys. We don't try to overpower each other, but have enough ... MIKE RUCKER I feel really good right now, and I know I'm ready. I know I want it more than anyone else. I've wor... DANNY COYNE We came into this thing with a lot of confidence and our confidence level is still high. We feel rea... CHRIS CHELIOS Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even thoug... LIV TYLER It feels just as good now (to be in the state tournament), if not better than it did last year. I'm ... HEATHER MARTIN Anytime you can go start 4-0 is a really good thing, especially when it is accomplished on the road,... LEIGH ROSS He flat-out said you are going to be fine. There's a number of guys who have had this injury and are... ED JOVANOVSKI How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I feel like we've got some real good players on the top on both sides, and I feel like we've got som... KATHRYN GILREATH I think his success has a lot more to do with his desire than with his mind. I am never going to dou... ROB ROONEY I think Luke's got as good a chance as anybody up there. If he wrestles within himself, he could be ... ANDY WEISS I feel really special. I went to a lot of work to feel this good. More work than I've ever gone thro... TINA RICHARDS The philosophy of the game, they way we play here in Phoenix, it's really unselfish. A lot of passes... BORIS DIAW Nolan told me that it was not going to feel good this year, ... That's the problem. You don't know h... ANDY PETTITTE I feel a lot better about this tournament. There will be a lot of flipping, and I like pitching- and... LARRY NIXON I feel real comfortable going into next season. I've got a big line to run behind, good coaches to l... JUSTIN JOHNSON [The first line in his book is this:] My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six. ... Yo... CARL REINER I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel bette... RITA RUDNER Anytime you can make the playoffs in this district, you have to count it as a good year. It really h... DAVID PLUNK We've got a lot of confidence. We know when we need a bucket or a defensive stop, we can get that. W... ZACH FREEMAN Stopping Brittany Woolley alone doesn't beat this team. They've got a lot of weapons. They've got a ... BRUCE MOORE We're not going to see this much energy in a building probably until 2010. We really learned a lot t... CRAIG BUNTIN This was a good meet for us. We got to see a lot of the better Division II teams and some of the bet... KIRK PEDERSEN I feel so lucky to have come to Houston, to such a good team, and such a good coach. We've got a rea... BRIANNA BATEUP I think what I love most about writing is that feeling that you really nailed something. I rarely fe... ANDRE DUBUS He's got to learn a game plan. He doesn't need any other distractions other than getting himself pre... RANDY EDSALL I’m a lot better now,” I said. “I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus.” “I know. I’... JOHN GREEN I didn't know if I was just going to be a rental player. This makes me feel a lot better about being... DENIS GAUTHIER Hopefully, I'll be ready to meet Michelle and play well. It's going to be a great experience. I know... CAMILO VILLEGAS I think it's going to be a really good meet. They have strengthened their team, and this is the best... FRAN CRIPPEN Sometimes I cannot say much about why I go to church other than what people who go to the gym say: I... LAUREN F. WINNER We have gained a lot of confidence in each other and in our team. I know that personally I was worri... JULIET GARLOW I haven't really got a good look at some of those guys except for practice when they're going agains... CHAD ZMOLEK I really like his game. If I were to critique it, I would say that I would like to see him be a litt... DEL HARRIS I feel bad for her because the reality is that she's going to be spending a lot of time recovering f... SCHATZI HAGEMAN The leg feels a lot better than it did six months ago. I came into the preseason with a different mi... JARVIS HAYES As a coaching staff we're trying to make sure (the gymnasts) feel confident in what they're doing. W... BOB STARKELL The kids responded after last week. We really focused this week on coming out early and starting fas... DAVID GIBBS I think the cruise lines are going to do better, ... Carnival is the No. 1 cruise line that we have ... WILLIAM ROE It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so... VAN ALSTYNE I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel b... RITA RUDNER Those three freshmen have a lot of big-meet experience, and that's going to pay off for them. They'r... DAN FLANNERY I've got a couple of bumps and bruises, ... But other than that, I feel good. Winning takes a lot of... JULIUS JONES This morning I woke up, but I didn't feel that good. When I got outside and got on the bus, I felt m... ANTHONY HAZELWOOD When it left, I knew it was on line. It was just whether it was too long or too short. I knew it was... CARY SHIVELY That was really a momentum builder and I thought it would change the pace of the game for us. We got... JAMI SAFRIT I don?t know how it was changed to this location. It was a good location at the other site. Now we h... ANDY COLLINS We feel really prepared; we had a lot of tough matches this past weekend, which I think is going to ... MALLORY VOELKER I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up ma... AZIZ ANSARI I was standing in line thinking there's got to be another way. Make an ADHD person wait in line to p... LINDA PINNEY After that, I'll know everything. To be completely honest with you, I know about Tennessee because t... LINDSEY HARDING We wanted to see how we could do in this meet because Carson City-Crystal and Kent City were going t... CECIL BURCH We know we're going to have to throw the ball, ... We're not going to be able to just line up and ru... DANNY PARKER Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you ha... LOUIS C. K. I know I didn't have a lot of energy and my shot was off. I felt better as the game went on. This ga... RACHAEL ACKERMAN I think they've got a lot of A-pluses going for them at this point. In six or seven or eight years, ... LARRY WHEELER I think we've got a good stadium now. But there's a lot of other facilities that are going to be nec... EDDIE FLOYD Trevor really stepped up and threw really well at the state meet. This year I would like him to be m... AARON NIDA Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot ... KATE WINSLET Needless to say, we feel a heck of a lot better than we did after the Southern Cal game the other ni... ROY WILLIAMS I was kind of tired and I didn't warm up that good before the first match. I got a much better warm-... SHACOI BERRY I wrestled really well and I feel great because this is my first sectional title. I have a lot of co... MIKE WATERS What this taught us is that in three weeks, the state meet is going to be close. This prepared us fo... DREW YOAKUM I hope it generates a lot of excitement because there's going to be some real good teams in this tou... CHARLES PATTILLO I am pleased. There were a lot of good things, but a lot of things we need to work on, too. They've ... GARY DEFINA I think we come together more on the road because you have to count on each other. In a hostile envi... ALLEGGRIE GUINN It's so much better than when I was coaching in it. You have really, really good coaches and good pl... CHARLIE SPOONHOUR I feel very good because I am doing a little bit better than I expected. I did not expect it to be t... AI MIYAZATO I'm really excited. I didn't know how well I'd do here with all the good gymnasts performing. I just... ASHLEY FELICELLI Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT
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SUSAN SONTAG Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize, SUSAN SONTAG Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminenc... SUSAN SONTAG This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of b... SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec... SUSAN SONTAG It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow t... SUSAN SONTAG A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is ... SUSAN SONTAG The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged,... SUSAN SONTAG The Way We Live Now SUSAN SONTAG Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that... SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of styli... SUSAN SONTAG He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. SUSAN SONTAG With more people, there are more voices to tune out. SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. SUSAN SONTAG Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "vi... SUSAN SONTAG Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to det... SUSAN SONTAG The aestheticizing tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by ne... SUSAN SONTAG It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking... SUSAN SONTAG But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybo... SUSAN SONTAG Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled re... SUSAN SONTAG It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe... SUSAN SONTAG One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na... SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations... SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ... SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ... SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste... SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou... SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature SUSAN SONTAG