We’ve collected the best Shots Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Nivin Pauly, Virender Sehwag, Jamal Murray, Garbine Muguruza, Patrick Reed. Use them as an inspiration.
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It’s difficult to always perform well, to always go on the court and win and hit great shots. It takes a lot of time and a long learning process.
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Once I wrote ‘Atmosphere,’ I thought, ‘This is my story; it’s me and my life and what I’ve gone through to get to where I am.’ I’m not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable – one more thing that people can fire shots at.
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I trust myself. I trust my shots.
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When I write a screenplay – and I think it’s one of the reasons why it was frustrating for me just to be a screenwriter – I’m not thinking of it in terms of words on a page; I’m thinking in terms of visual images – basically, a comic book. I’m thinking of it in a series of shots.
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I don’t back down. Like, I don’t know how to flop. That’s never been a part of my game. For me to know if a guy likes to turn left shoulder or right shoulder in the post, I have an advantage. Or if he likes to go left all the time, I have an advantage. Or if he can’t make open jump shots, I have an advantage.
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To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It’s a dog fight.
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I am always in self-doubt… every moment of my filmmaking. I am supremely confident when the story is being written and everything is in our head. But the moment we get into the filmmaking, I start doubting myself – from the camera angle to the re-recording to getting the actors to do their shots.
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Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.
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Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant – that’s why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it’s why sunglasses are glamorous – but also not so far above us that we can’t identify with the person.
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I do feel like I get a lot of open shots.
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Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant – that’s why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it’s why sunglasses are glamorous – but also not so far above us that we can’t identify with the person.
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As soon as you’re finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you’re going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they’ll spend months on it. So, you’re editing out of sequence before you’ve gotten a film for the movie and the performances.
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In ‘The Apprentice,’ they don’t re-do shots, it’s all one-take. We literally follow the decisions that the candidates make.
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I beat Gilbert Melendez, and he got two shots at the title.
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One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can’t cut any corners.
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It’s the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it’s the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.
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I’m a Scorpio, so I call the shots.
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In the past years, I got in a lot of foul trouble because I was out of position, or because I was just too aggressive. I was trying to block too many shots. It’s really just learning when to take a chance at blocking shots, and to get to spots early.
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I try to do a good job of contesting shots and blocking shots and altering shots, but I’ve got to do a better job of doing more.
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I’m utilized for playing defense, blocking shots and getting rebounds.
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I’m going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
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Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don’t need to have too many shots and be too explanatory and expositional about the scene.
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You don’t knock Ray Mercer out with one or two shots. You have to make him quit.
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All of my shots are dunks or are around the rim.
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I’ve always loved blocking shots.
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I think the defense is going to dictate how many shots you get.
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When I played Gollum in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn’t captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
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I am aware of what my opponent Avila brings and the experience he has. He’s tough, throws hard shots and is a good counterpuncher.
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Where I’m from, we don’t take shots over two guys. When someone is doubled, it’s the next man’s job to take the shot and make it.
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Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can’t just call the shots and expect change.
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I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It’s been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
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You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you’ve got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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I don’t appreciate people taking shots and joking at my expense, when I don’t do that to anybody else.
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Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.
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A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
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Seeing the ball go in during the game, getting to your spots, getting spot-up shots. You have that rhythm and you have that confidence in yourself. And everybody else has that confidence in you too, more importantly.
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If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won‘t happen overnight, but if you’re systematic about it, the process will work.
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If you move in and out, throw shots and use angles and the guy’s feet are planted, you look a lot better.
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A 12-hour shift is physically exhausting. You give multiple shots, wearing heavy jewellry and make-up – and end up with dark circles, acne, and skin problems.
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I was a sportscaster right out of school. I used to do the nightly newscast and the nightly sportscast and I would write, produce, do live shots. Yeah, I loved it. That’s how I cut my teeth in the business.
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I don’t plan a lot of shots, but going into shooting and prep, I’ve got certain things that stand out to me.
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A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
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Now, I’m not afraid. Or getting myself down about missing shots or missing an assignment late. The game goes on. You’ve got another chance. That’s definitely a mental thing.
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I feel that I can make certain shots, tough shots, and that I can play better when things aren’t going well.
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I know I can block shots and I’ve got to do it. That’s part of my job as a big.
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It’s always the captain’s team and it is the leader who calls the shots.
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Just because you miss shots, you can’t doubt yourself. It’s easier said than done.
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My job is to get my shots up, to come to work, to watch film and get out of there. I don’t get into the management and coaching side, that’s their job – that’s what they get paid for.
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As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them – maybe editors used to run them before – are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots.
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It’s got to feel good off the face, it’s got to look good from on top of the ball. And then, obviously, it’s got to perform. But in those iron testings, obviously, I’m just trying to hit the best shots I can.
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What I’m trying to do is play the game the right way, not force shots up. Whenever I have my opportunities, take ’em.
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Kerber is an incredible fighter. She redirects her shots. She can hit any shot at any time in any specific place whenever she wants.
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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
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A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.
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I’ve had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I’ve never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I’ve called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
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If you’re in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.
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When you take shots downfield, you want to be good at them.
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Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
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You’ve got to be able to guard hard and then work yourself offensively to get shots.
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People don’t drop me with shots on the temple.
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I mean, defending isolations is easy, but it’s hard at the same time. I think I’m a pretty good defender, but when you go against guys that can make tough shots, it makes you feel so bad, like, ‘Oh, man, these guys just made a tough shot on me.’
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I think I can help push the tempo just a little bit… I feel I can get the ball after a rebound. Push the fastbreak. Push the tempo. Get guys some easy shots.
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Making the tough shots and leaning in a certain way and a fadeaway and stuff like that, those are tough shots, but those are shots you have to learn to make in this league.
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I have never seen anybody, and I don’t think there has ever been anybody like Nick Diaz in all of MMA. Can you tell me another guy who is going to stand right in front of you, take big shots, and still keep coming at you with those body shots and those amazing combinations?
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When you’re young and you first come onto the scene, you’re fearless. You just go for your shots and don’t really think about the consequences. But as you play on through years and years, you get punished for those misses, and gradually, that leaves scars. It dents your confidence a bit.
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People want to hear the gossip. They don’t want to hear about the shots.
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I love having 30 shots of every scene.
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When we get bad shots, it’s hard to rebound and it’s also harder to come back in transition defense.
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I’m not a guy that’s going to shoot 10 3s a game – I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.
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I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.
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It’s a very funny topic, missing weight and getting title shots. I think the punishments should be more severe, but I don’t know.
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I kept a chart each day so I had an idea of how many shots I took and how many I made. Looking back on it now, I can appreciate the work ethic I put forward.
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When you’re playing spot minutes, it’s harder to hit those shots. But if you’re getting volume shots, now it’s a lot easier to get a rhythm.
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I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as ‘shots fired,’ and funny ad hominem attacks.
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I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.
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The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.
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We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you’d rather not see. They’re more like mongrels.
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A shooter takes shots, a shotter makes shots.
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He doesn’t like to be hit. Not that anybody likes to be hit, but Brock for whatever reason has shown much more of a dramatic response to the negativity of those shots. To the point where he’s not asleep, it isn’t like he got knocked out, he’s not getting dropped, but he just turns his face away from adversity.
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When the frame’s safe, I like to let myself go a bit; play a few more entertaining shots rather than just getting the frame over and done with.
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My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That’s not me.
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I’m not going to go out and shoot 20 shots a game because I got paid a little bit more money or anything like that.
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Dirk was obviously a player that I looked up to. In high school I actually wore No. 41 in honor of Dirk. He was the first player where I was like this guy is seven-feet tall and shooting jump shots and shooting threes, this is what I want to be like.
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If a guy is shooting a shot in the corner 70 percent of the missed shots usually come off that other side and 30 percent hits off the front rim so just playing the percentages and kind of studying your teammates‘ shots throughout the course of the game.
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I probably visualize myself, the shots I’m going to get in the game, how I’m going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team’s best player, what it’s going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.
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Runs are runs, even if they are coming off playing cut shots or in front, but it’s not like T20 can only be played with big shots.
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A lot of people take shots at news channels.
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I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There’s not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I’m still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.
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The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.
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Sudheer Varma is very easy going and very confident director. He knows exactly what he wants. He has a very good vision and knows how many shots he wants for a scene. He is super fast. He gives freedom for actors to try different things. The atmosphere on the sets was never serious. We had great fun working together.
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Once I wrote ‘Atmosphere,’ I thought, ‘This is my story; it’s me and my life and what I’ve gone through to get to where I am.’ I’m not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable – one more thing that people can fire shots at.
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When you’re at the bottom, everybody is taking shots at you. It’s up to you to stay with it and fight through it.
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When you play guard, you’re not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you’re going to block shots.
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Being out there, I know how to play the game and know my spots. Just get rebounds, block shots, defend.
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If you have one guy taking all of the shots, you’re obviously not playing very fast, because you have to slow it down and wait for him to get to his spot in the offense. But when you just want the best shot possible, a lot of different people are going to get the ball.
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I remember far more shots that cost me matches than the ones that won me matches. That is maybe the way you think if you are someone who has won a lot of tournaments and had a successful career.
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There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
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When we get comfortable, we start relaxing, taking bad shots, especially me I take bad shots when I’m tired.
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When you first come to a team, no one wants to come down and take three or four shots in a row. You want to pass the ball around and get the feel of each other.
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If I stay patient in the offense, shots will come.
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When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it’s like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone’s talking about head shots… It just turned me off. I was like, ‘What is this? I don’t understand this. People are singing in the hallways.’
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It frustrated me as a kid. Like, why didn’t I just wake up every morning shooting half-court shots from my bedroom?
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People are going to take shots at you for everything you did bad, and they forget about all the good things you did. They do it to everyone. They’re going to do it to me, they’ve done it to all of them. They did it to Tom Landry. Are you kidding me? Tom Landry? With the fedora? Come on. They did it to Tom Landry.
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It’s not my decision, what goes on with who gets a title shot. I mean, some people get their shots in two or three fights. They’re pretty lucky. I wish I could be like them.
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From the bowler‘s point of view, if I look at a batsman, I don’t see his shots, I see his defence. If a player has a strong defence, he is a very good player.
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I’m criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I’ve had my pot shots at them. I’m fair game.
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A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.
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I don’t hunt shots.
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When I’m on the court, I feel at peace, really. It feels like my home. I’m always thinking of something creative to do, like trick shots or something like that. It’s just something about the basketball court that touches me; it makes me feel like nothing is wrong on the court.
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I’ve always felt that when I’ve been successful in red-ball cricket it has been because I’ve left the ball well and sometimes in cricket the shots you don’t play are more important than the ones you do.
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When you see people taking shots who were on the same team and wearing the same jerseys, that’s a sign of not having that team camaraderie.
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I’ve been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I’d grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots.
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A lot of people say I’m reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There’s nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.
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I can shoot, or I can roll, I can finish inside, I can take two-point shots, I can switch on defence and I can protect the paint.
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I let the game come to me. I just try to read plays. I don’t like taking bad shots. I want the best shot for the team.
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What wins still goes back to who you are as a player and what you do well. If you’re a great 3-point shooter, you try to get as many of those shots as you can. If you’re a good driver, get in the restricted area.
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I make shots, and that’s what I am.
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For me personally, short game, bunker shots aren’t too bad.
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A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they’re a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that’s the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
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On ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,’ I spent two or three months learning how to ride a motorcycle. I wasn’t really riding the motorcycle in 98 percent of the movie, but the shots of me getting on and off had to look like I had been doing it for years and years.
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You’ll see in ‘Carol‘ a lot of shots shot through windows, glass and awnings, with interruptions between where we are and where our object is. To me, I hope that that conjures the whole act of looking as a predicament, as something that is never easy and never completely attainable.
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I’m not afraid of taking big shots and things like that. It’s a 50-50 chance. It might go in, it might not, but I’m not scared to take it.
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It’s all about timing and taking out big shots at the right time.
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I’ve got power. I don’t throw hard every time. I just throw shots.
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When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back ’til he won. I honestly feel that’s how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
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I’m not a great patient, and so I don’t love shots.
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I’m very impressed by films like’ Whiplash’ or what Fincher does, where you get all these different… Where you get all this coverage that’s perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.
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It’s never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.
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I’ve taken thousands of shots in the corner. It’s all mental. That’s all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.
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I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.
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Everyone will say something about confidence or something if you miss a couple shots. You’ve just got to keep shooting.
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A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don’t go in.
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Sometimes it’s hard to be aggressive in looking for your shot if shots aren’t going in.
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Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they’d think it was weird. I eat nutritional yeast. And sometimes I take clay shots to help pull toxins out of my body. I eat weird L.A. food, so I guess that’s probably weird in other people’s eyes.
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I feel like I can run the floor well, rebound and block shots and let the offense come.
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I’m working on everything, especially staying balanced when I shoot the ball. That’s the biggest thing, as well as taking good shots within the offense.
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When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.
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I’ve always wanted to be a director; it’s just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I’m seeing a whole scene come to life.
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You cannot score 10 goals from 10 shots – that’s impossible – but I am trying.
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Yes, you’ll try and set up a batsman and get him to play a few shots. It’s just that you are always trying to play a mental game with the batsmen and as long as you are doing that consistently throughout the day and keep asking questions you are bound to be successful.
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In golf I have my support team, and though I hit the shots, I say ‘we’ a lot, because ‘we’ made it happen.
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I think the thing that helps you get to the next level is being able to affect the game in different ways. And that’s me getting my teammates shots instead of me just coming off pin-downs.
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The drop shots and lobs are very effective in senior tennis.
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I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself – because that’s when the cameras are running. That’s the important thing to me. Some of these shots you need to think about in advance; you need to have some ideas for them.
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Sometimes the shots you play in T20s don’t look good and you feel that you got out on a bad looking shot.
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When ‘Paranoid‘ came out, how many other ‘Paranoids’ came out? No shots, just real.
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I don’t do a lot of guest shots on television.
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Four More Shots’ is high on the glamour quotient and has perfect looking women. But to constantly look perfect is quite exhausting.
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I don’t like cheap shots, I really don’t.
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You’ve got to look and pick your shots – and that’s where your class and skill comes out.
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I don’t like, and I’ve never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you’re in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.
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If I hit the Klitschkos with the same shots I was hitting John Ruiz, both of them would go over.
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I’m going to miss shots. I’m going to make plenty of mistakes. It’s not going to be perfect.
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I’ve copied a bit of what AB de Villiers does. The way I go back and across to open myself up and set myself for the shots.
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I want to be the guy calling the shots.
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I go for my shots with no regrets, even if I play to the fence.
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You got to be able to hit mid-range shots, you got to able to hit threes and you got to be able to finish in the lane.
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For a movie actor, the biggest challenge on TV is the number of close-up shots.
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The fact is, you don’t know what directing is until the sun is setting and you’ve got to get five shots and you’re only going to get two.
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Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we’re able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.
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I am always in self-doubt… every moment of my filmmaking. I am supremely confident when the story is being written and everything is in our head. But the moment we get into the filmmaking, I start doubting myself – from the camera angle to the re-recording to getting the actors to do their shots.
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They’re stealing my ideas. They’re imitating my shots.
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To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It’s a dog fight.
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You need all four people to be throwing well. You need to be playing the right shots. You just need to be a lot smarter.
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This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that’s what I was able to do today.
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Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.
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You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that’s just U.S. Open golf. It’s tough; it’s hard.
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It’s just a game. I love it. And yeah, I get frustrated, but I try to not let it get me too upset. I mean, I don’t get upset over bad shots or anything like that.
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I’ve worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I’m always watching what they do and I’m watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you’re trying to help them out as well.
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I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.
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If you want to be a hero, you’ve got to take hero shots.
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I’ve never been a guy that’s been salty about the shots I’m getting. I just try to play the right way.
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When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.
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You want to take shots you practice thousands and thousands of times. You want to take those same shots in games. The easier you can find those shots, the better.
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If the batsman is playing good shots, you accept it, but it is important that we bowl according to what the plan is and not go off it.
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We’ve been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you’re always trying to find that end. So ‘my shot’ is speaking of a variety of shots. When you’re a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you’re supposed to take.
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If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn’t be hunting. If you can’t get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn’t be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
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I don’t really know what to say about Izzy. It’s like you could have a conversation and think it’s one way, and the next day, it’s another way. And I’m not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It’s just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.
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Here’s what I’m going to say about that: my personal thought about the brilliance of ‘Peeno Noir‘ as proven by the fans’ appreciation is that, when watched back, what makes it so exciting is the random locations and the random costume changes and the multiple shots that we’ve done all over the city.
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I’ve played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn’t easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I’m the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.
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On the offensive end you can work yourself into a rhythm, but on the defensive end you have to be aware of everything. That’s not measured by shots made or missed, it’s measured by heart and determination to get out and play somebody. That’s how you win on defense.
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I like J. Cole when he’s not taking shots at me.
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Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really – in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it’s really about time management. And so the smartest filmmakers are the ones who sort of pre-visualize the film in their head and are literally shooting the shots they need to cut the story together.
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I want to be one of those point guards who knock down shots you have to get over the top.
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Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
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You have games when you miss shots and when you make shots. But knowing you’re here for a reason and you’re an NBA basketballer helps.
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It’s not about making the most shots or even dunking the ball or any of that. It’s about being consistent every day you step on the court.
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I’m not a guy who is out there looking to get his game going or put up shots; I’m out there to win, and I don’t care if I’m playing three or 30 minutes.
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I’ve been feeling really comfortable on clay because I have more time to set up my forehand. I can use a lot of different shots – drop shots and high balls. You can mix up a lot of shots, so it’s actually more fun to play on clay.
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It’s one of my obsessions to come up with ways to reimagine establishing shots in new, non-boring ways. Shots that have energy and excitement.
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I have to keep calm and work on my shots in practice.
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There’s a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything’s very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need – but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.
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Bosses are the ones calling the shots, as they should in any organization. And if you think you’re above your boss, that’s not reality.
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Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it’s very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the architecture. It’s amazing for outfit of the day shots.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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Being quick off the ground helps you block shots.
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The good shots are good enough. It’s really about managing those mistakes and making sure we have less of them.
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In the NBA they’ve taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I’m gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.
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The most difficult quality is to make the right decision. Because you can be quick, you can be strong, you can jump incredibly, you can have the best shots and you can be able to score goals from 50 yards, but if you don’t know when to shoot, when to run or when to jump, you’re lost.
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On ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,’ I spent two or three months learning how to ride a motorcycle. I wasn’t really riding the motorcycle in 98 percent of the movie, but the shots of me getting on and off had to look like I had been doing it for years and years.
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I think my wingspan helps me out on defense, because I can cover a little more ground and block a few more shots.
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I’ve storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.
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I loved watching AB de Villiers in the early days. I used to follow him closely. I copied him a lot, too. In the nets, I used to at least try some of the shots he played in the matches.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
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There’s discussion in athletics about how sport – where they say ‘SportsCenter’ has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it’s – it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you’re able to hit it, you’re able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots… it’s a beautiful thing.
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Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it’s very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the architecture. It’s amazing for outfit of the day shots.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Growing up, a lot of my shots came off of me dribbling and shooting it.
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You give me enough shots, I’ll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I’ll average 10 rebounds.
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Most of my shots are threes and long 2-point jumpers.
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In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.
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On returning to India I took up a short assignment as assistant to the secretary of jury at the International Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray was the chairman. He was on the lookout for an assistant, and that’s how I went to Kolkata. I learnt a lot – the discipline, conceptualization, planning your shots.
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As a middle-order batsman, a lot of times you have to trust your ability to play those big shots under pressure. It is also important to trust your partner at that time.
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Most people don’t know I like to block shots. I’m going to be a big point guard out there. So just come in and prove myself. Just show why I belong on this stage.
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One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can’t cut any corners.
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When you start hitting some shots, you build some confidence.
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I don’t like anything I see of myself on screen. I might like one scene or a few shots, but mostly I feel bad and keep kicking myself.
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Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don’t work on it – at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.
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I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and… pssss… they deflate.
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Sometimes shots just don’t go my way, but for me in my growth and as a leader, it’s important for me to stay aggressive.
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When you’re going through a game and you miss your first couple, you definitely put a little bit of added pressure on yourself. And there is that sense of frustration. You got to block it out and realize that the whole goal of what I’m trying to do is just get open shots.
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The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
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When all your teammates make shots, it’s easy to get assists. Nobody feels the pressure to score. It makes the game so much easier.
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If I have to score baskets then I have to try to score baskets and stop missing shots, but even if it’s not going, I need to be able to have another phase of the game and not let my offense take away from my defense or rebounds.
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Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
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I’ve always been able to shoot the ball, so it’s just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That’s the main thing. Got to get those shots up.
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I don’t take bad shots.
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Runs are runs, even if they are coming off playing cut shots or in front, but it’s not like T20 can only be played with big shots.
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I love watching old fights. It’s hard to watch the black-and-white footage, although I know about Randolph Turpin and people like that, but I’m talking about Hearns, Haggler, Leonard, those guys. Sugar Ray Leonard, he was way before his time, throwing bolos and all that, those big wind-up bolo shots.
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Everybody talks about talent. But talent is not only athleticism. It’s not only tennis shots. It’s everything. It’s the attitude you have about life.
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I’m not wild about hand-held shots.
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I know it’s not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn’t have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there’s nothing better than a disposable camera.
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Visually, I’m always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.
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When I got on my first set, I watched what the cinematographer was doing, and at that level in film school, the cinematographer has the most control. They’re the one looking through the viewfinder, carrying the camera, framing the shots.
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I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
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I never casually shoot shots, ever. I shoot the same way every time. I shoot the same shots that I’d shoot during the game.
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I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.
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I want to be behind the scenes, and learn more. What cameras to use, what lenses to use, what shots I want to get. And it takes time, so being on movies and sets, I just learn.
453
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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I’ve been learning when to block shots against who I’m playing. I’m not just going to leave a shooter to go block shots.
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Show your intent and it’s not about playing all your shots, like Fakhar Zaman, only Fakhar does that.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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It is always tough to miss shots.
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The first year I kind of struggled to find where my shots was coming from, when to cut, where to be.
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If you can deliver the big shots at the right time, they hurt.
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I don’t care about my shots or my points or my assists. It’s about playing the right way, trying to get everybody involved.
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I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I’m not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club’s swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.
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My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don’t know, it didn’t take me long to realize I’m a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.
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I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.
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I’m not afraid to take big shots. I’m not afraid to take any type of shots.
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I’m not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players. It’s triumphant, and it’s emotional, and that’s what sports are for.
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I block shots and stay out the way.
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At first, when I did everything myself, I’d set up a tripod, film and then press stop. That’s why all my shots are on a tripod and don’t move, and that’s why my videos are still filmed this way.
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I get pretty pumped up when I block shots. I have good timing and I go after it pretty good.
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You try to get the best shots possible, try to find the open teammate.
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When I feel that confidence to do my best shots, I know I can be dangerous for all the guys.
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The fact is, you don’t know what directing is until the sun is setting and you’ve got to get five shots and you’re only going to get two.
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I was never a one-dimensional guy; I was always able to block shots, play defense, get rebounds, or drive, or pass. My father made me grow up that way. He taught me to work on different things in my game and wanted me to be more than a one-dimensional player.
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I remember thinking when I set out to direct my movie that it was all about lenses and the shots you were going to get. Really, directing is about tapping into what makes us the most human, telling stories, emotions, and managing a group of empathetic people.
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I’m a lock-up defender and I believe strongly in my defense, so I don’t need to take cheap shots at guys to get an edge.
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Sometimes having good games. Sometimes bad ones. Sometimes making shots, and sometimes not. I’m the same guy, and I always said that winning the championship or not winning it, scoring 20 the last game or second-to-last or whatever, or zero, is not going to change who I am or the decision I make.
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When we get bad shots, it’s hard to rebound and it’s also harder to come back in transition defense.
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I’m not really into beer, but I like tequila shots.
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I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
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I love shooting movies. I love the shots. That’s the thing that I love doing, and I’ve just never been able to do it.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I’d rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
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I don’t try and copy anyone in T20 cricket. My cricketing shots are inside out, behind the bowler, and other shots I have developed.
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I shot millions and millions of shots, just wanted the ball and felt good every time I released the ball, especially in those last seconds of big games.
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Being an instinctive player is great but there’s time in the past where I’ve let how I’m playing at the time affect me, thinking I can play some big shots and I’d be alright.
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When you’ve won a lot of matches you know how to play the important moment – you have a great feeling on court, confidence. You know what you have to do, when to go for the shots or when to play solid. It’s really clear in your head, and you trust in your hands.
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Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot – we’re just going ‘bam, bam, bam.’
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When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.
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I’ve always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I’m the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling – that if I shoot a high percentage, I don’t have to shoot a ton.
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I built my career in the league playing defense and making shots, and also making plays when I needed to.
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I like to get on the court three hours before the game. That way, I can get out of everybody’s way, and I can do what I need to do for me and get up the shots that I need and then be in the locker room and getting my stuff taken care of physically – if I need treatment or whatever may be.
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The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they’re going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
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I don’t take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.
515
If I could take back all the mistakes that I made throughout my career, I would have had a perfect career. I would have missed no shots. I would have made no turnovers. I would have went right instead of going left when I was supposed to, every game.
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Tough teams win when the shots are not going.
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I mean, some of the shots I take now I wouldn’t have dreamed of taking when I first put on a Heat uniform. I would’ve been like, ‘Who am I to take that shot?’ Some undrafted guy who averaged nine points a game his senior year in college.
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Some people say I miss a lot of shots, but I’m not missing them, that’s how I set them up. I’m not in danger if I don’t get a takedown.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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I feel like, I go out and play hard every day and I’m going to practice every day, I’m going to block shots.
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I just got to be ready to knock down shots.
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I could think six shots ahead. It’s no different to playing chess.
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The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You’re feeling gun shots. I mean, it’s not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That’s what you feel.
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LeBron is one of the greats. He’s going to hit tough shots. You have to be able to live with them and limit everyone else around him.
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I spent many hours slaving away, day and night, bleary eyed, on multi-million pound takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and the rest. It could sound glamorous (especially when it involved overseas travel) but often it wasn’t partly because, as a lawyer, you were not the one calling the shots.
534
I’m going to take Barrera out in devastating style with unbelievably hard shots. He’s tailor-made for me, and I will fit him with a suit to wear on the canvas.
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For me, I just go out there and play defense, hit some open shots and keep it rolling.
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I can’t stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.
538
On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of the house. And of course, on film, there’s different angles, different shots, so that determines how animated or how still you must be.
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I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as ‘shots fired,’ and funny ad hominem attacks.
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Whether it’s fight off my front foot, fight off my back foot, pick shots off, roll shots off, potshot, put combinations together, I feel like I’m a pretty well-rounded fighter. Whatever the situation calls for, I feel like I have the tools on my belt to bring it out.
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I can be a guy the guys can rely on, an anchor in the paint, whether it’s blocking shots or being on that help side.
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If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you’re going to get caught – bang – and the fight could be over.
544
Don’t give them 3-point shots if that’s what they’re trying to do and embarrass you in any way.
545
Before every season we take the Bachelor or Bachelorette out for publicity shots and video.
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I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it’s like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You’re not Steph Curry.
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I was always trying to get in the paint and get the easiest shots I can.
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You trust your work. You understand throughout the season everything isn’t going to be perfect, stay confident, continue to take the shots you’ve been taking and whatever happens, happens.
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Welterweights have what heavyweights have but they also have what flyweights have. We have speed and power. We have what it takes to keep a certain tempo but also deliver the hard shots that the heavyweights have.
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Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.
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And the question about if I ever dreamed of making the putt on the last hole of a U.S. Open when I was a kid, no, I didn’t. But I hit a lot of game-winning shots on the basketball court when I was a kid.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.
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Some shots people won’t think are right but I want to give the crowd a good show and get new people into the sport.
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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
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An actor’s performance can be improved or shaped – or ruined – by what takes you use, how long you are on the actor’s face, what line you put on the other actor’s face, and when do you use close-ups or wide shots or two shots.
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Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you’re probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn’t quite make it out of the earth’s gravitational field.
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In New Zealand, Tom Latham was batting and was continuously playing sweep shots. I tried googlies and leg spins but those didn’t work out against him. He was hitting me for boundaries. I was really disappointed.
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Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.
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I like to play attacking shots, even if it is in the first over of the game. If I get out playing attacking shots, then so be it.
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The most difficult quality is to make the right decision. Because you can be quick, you can be strong, you can jump incredibly, you can have the best shots and you can be able to score goals from 50 yards, but if you don’t know when to shoot, when to run or when to jump, you’re lost.
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Even if it’s just two shots, I just want to see the ball go in the hole. That gives me the confidence to know I can make shots when I’m called upon in a playoff type of situation.
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There are a plenty of shots that I have been amazed by, but a lot of these shots are played because you have worn an iron mask. Take away the protection, and let me see if they play them. Don’t forget that the past players did not have any protection.
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In college we could take tough shots and your field goal percentage would go down.
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On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.
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I just feel like there’s a lid on the basket. Three games and no shots went in, but I just have to keep working.
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I do all the dirty work: play defense, grab rebounds, block shots and finish strong around the rim.
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Just because you miss shots, you can’t doubt yourself. It’s easier said than done.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.
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Sometimes you get nervous because you cannot make shots and then you rush your shot and then you take bad shots and then you get even more nervous.
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When I miss a few shots I just stay confident.
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Some games you’re gonna have seven shots, some games you’re gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.
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I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.
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On the off days, you have to come in and try to maintain your rhythm, just try to keep everything together. I sometimes come by myself, or some of my boys, get up a few shots, not too much, before or after practice. I always find time to get some shots up.
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I had an instinct before and maybe now I don’t have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.
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Throughout my career, I’ve always loved hitting deep shots over the top. A lot of times, those plays just come to you. You don’t want to force it.
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I have a responsibility and a job as a guy who gets paid a lot of money, I’m expected to perform. And 82 games in 6-7 months is a lot, and it’s hard on the body, and you’re not gonna play perfect every night. Even Ray Allen misses shots, even LeBron misses dunks.
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I’m always trying to block shots.
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‘CSI’ was a little cutting-edge at the time because it made TV look like movies. It was shot in that Jerry Bruckheimer style with dolly shots, putting the camera on rails so stylistically, it looked aesthetically more like a film.
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I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.
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The quickest time to rehydrate is right after you’re done training, so I’m always carrying these gallons of water to drink, drink, drink so my body can recover faster. And that’s a huge part of being able to take damage, by the way. If you’re hydrated, your brain is lubricated, you can take bigger shots.
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Sometimes those shots I take won’t go in but I’m going to continue to take the same shots.
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I don’t take any type of shots. I feel like I take the shots that are necessary and open.
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I like to play aggressively, and it just lets me go for even more shots.
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I don’t take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.
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In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
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I wouldn’t have the experience or the confidence to go on ‘AGT’ without being on ‘Little Big Shots’ because doing ‘Little Big Shots’ was really fun, but it was also really good practice for my appearance on ‘AGT,’ and it was just a great, awesome experience that I will remember always.
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As long as I can take open shots or good shots, I’m going to take it.
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I’m a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.
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When I was getting overly ‘droppy,’ that’s when I was hitting shots left and right. That’s what we were doing, so maybe if my swing was a touch flatter, I wouldn’t drop the club as much.
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If we want to win, we’re not going to be able to go out on the court and say, ‘My turn’ or ‘Your turn.’ We’re going to have to play together and sacrifice some shots, some ball touches, some minutes.
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A shooter takes shots, a shotter makes shots.
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I don’t remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.
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Especially on television, it’s not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there’s a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus husband. In the sitcom world, it’s almost a cliche that the women have the common sense, going back to ‘The Honeymooners.’
620
Chances to win games won’t always come in the box, so that’s one thing I’ve got to work on: positioning myself outside the box and, obviously, taking shots.
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Obviously, there is not one player in the world that doesn’t like making shots.
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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live – the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
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Obviously, you look at a situation and you say, ‘What do I need to do to fit in?’ I looked at the Clippers and said, ‘I really need to work on my dunk shots.’
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An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.
