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• But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

  Rick Bayan

  Fun, Ambition, Garden

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• My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Care, Way, Paint

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• I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.

  Jenji Kohan

  Depressing, Drama, Struggle

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• Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

  Jake Holmes

  Musician, Way

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• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dream, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

  Flavia Pennetta

  Winning, Thinking, Twenties

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• Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.

  Simona Halep

  Crazy, Fighting, Play

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• The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.

  Mickey Rourke

  Sports, Hurt, Wrestling

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

  John Corbett

  Cute, Fun, Want

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• Sometimes I get drunk and I get into arguments with taxi drivers. And I get out the cab and I slam the door. That's not the way to win an argument with a taxi driver. The way to win is you get out of the cab and you leave the door open. And then he has to step out and come around and close that door. And while he's doing that, I'm on the other side opening the other doors-and we just go around and around and around, and I got my own Benny Hill situation going on in life.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Winning, Doors

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• I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.

  Rory McIlroy

  Careers, Feelings, Three

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• Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

  Irving Stone

  Running, Reading, Home

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• We're breaking records and we're moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be.

  Venus Williams

  Moving, Winning, Records

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• Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Fine, Terrible

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• Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

  Richard Gere

  Funny, Doors, Faces

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• Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry.  Fear never saved a marriage or a business.  Courage did that.  Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that.  But fear itself?  Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors.  Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Faith, Country

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Hurt, Buddhism

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• If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Government, Doors, Car

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• I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Airplane, Thinking, People

  "Tough questions teed up for Rice testimony" by Mimi Hall and Judy Keen, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 16, 2002.

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• As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy’s thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can’t say I’ve heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.

  Ann Aguirre

  Fall, Wind, Guy

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.56, Penguin

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• Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

  Mary Pierce

  Winning, Expectations, Stuff

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• I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.

  Jenji Kohan

  Country, Badass, Space

  "'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 13, 2013.

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• He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.

  Nonito Donaire

  Running, Motivation, Home

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• Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.

  Li Na

  Winning, Age, Stills

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