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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development
"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."
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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference."
Difference
"I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor."
College
"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."
Life
"I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand."
Fierce
"The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field."
Challenge
"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."
Fire
"Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher."
Theory
"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."
Tension
"The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault."
Business
"Don't come home a failure."
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