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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.


Gary Lineker

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GARY SINISE You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t...
GARY SINISE The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to ...
GARY SINISE Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine run...
GARY SINISE Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
GARY SINISE I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
GARY SHTEYNGART In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, bu...
GARY SHTEYNGART I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ...
GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa...
GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t...
GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
GARY SHTEYNGART That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult...
GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret...
GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it...
GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se...
GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
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