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Horse racing is waning in popularity.


Elayne Boosler
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Horse racing is animated roulette.


Roger Kahn
Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.
Rick Pitino
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler
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Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.


George Cukor
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
Kimberly Willis Holt
Tags: Good Me Want
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It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.


Audrey Tautou
Tags: Who Someone Might
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.


Georges Simenon
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IBM has a very solid business image.


Helmut Jahn
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.


Chevy Chase
Tags: Family Very Lot
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
Van Morrison
Tags: Music Like About
I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.
Nick Davies
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.


Jules Renard
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
R. Kelly
Tags: You People Me
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
Nelson DeMille
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What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
Chris Martin
Tags: Age Like More
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.
Louis Sachar
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.


Izaak Walton
Tags: Good Way Makes
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Tags: You Always Will