Richard Gilman quotes
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“Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.”
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“I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.”
-- Richard GilmanSource : Richard Gilman (1988). “Faith, sex, mystery: a memoir”, Viking Pr
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“I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.”
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“Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.”
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“There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.”
-- Richard Gilman
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Source : "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.
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“Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.”
Source : "Cobb: A Biography".
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“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”
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“This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.”
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“Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!”
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