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I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan. -- Robin Yount
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. -- Joe Garagiola
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. -- Steven Soderbergh
You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight. -- Reggie Jackson
Chris Nolan is an amazing director. -- Tom Lister, Jr.
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can. -- Adam McKay
When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong." -- Anne Hathaway
Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart. -- Randy Johnson
I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out. -- Dave Winfield
I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan. -- Anne Hathaway
You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor. -- Ryan Kavanaugh
And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better. -- Anne Hathaway
If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them. -- Sylvia Plath
All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. -- Gabriel Mann
I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits. -- Joan Collins
Chris Nolan is great, but I've never seen any of the 'Batman' movies all the way through. I know they're good. I just have zero interest in those kinds of movies. -- Michael Keaton
Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor. -- Ken Watanabe
I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film. -- Cillian Murphy
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times. -- Rickey Henderson
It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not making a studio movie. Look the Dark Knight it's totally the vision of Nolan. -- Xavier Gens
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. -- Reggie Jackson
Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers. -- George W. Bush
What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil. -- John Podhoretz
I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote 'The Dark Knight' with Chris, his brother. He wrote 'The Prestige,' the story for 'Memento.' -- Mike Birbiglia
I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness. -- Sylvia Plath
I think that I'm a pretty great producer, but the vision behind Batman is Chris Nolan. I'm there to do my best to help execute that vision, and I think I do a really good job, but the vision is Chris Nolan. -- Charles Roven
What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line. -- Sylvia Plath
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin. -- Gabriel Mann
Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. -- John Podhoretz
There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius. -- Michael Uslan
What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan? -- Nolan Ryan
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough. -- Nolan Ryan
Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan. -- Ernie Harwell
Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching. -- Thurman Munson
I really hope that I get to work with Chris [Nolan] some day. -- Katie Holmes
Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness. -- Joe Morgenstern
It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan -- Sarah Brocious
People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen. -- Steven Soderbergh
J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are brilliant people, so I knew it [Westworld] was going to be amazing. -- Evan Rachel Wood
I really enjoyed working on the first one [Batman franchise] and I wish I could have worked with Chris Nolan again and I hope to work with him again. -- Katie Holmes
People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it. -- Matthew Vaughn
Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, "?Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference. -- Mark Batterson
There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem. -- Collin Peterson
The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor. -- Christopher Nolan
What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in. -- David S. Goyer
It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' -- Tom Hardy
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel. -- Betty Smith
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me. -- Hugh Jackman
Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more! -- Gabriel Mann
The truth is at Legendary we really make movies that we want to see, and someday I'm sure that won't work but - I remember, it's obviously a completely different thing, but our first movie was Batman Begins, and there was a lot of things about Batman back then, and there was this guy named Christopher Nolan, that seemed to have worked out okay with him at the helm. -- Thomas Tull

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