American - Author | July 22, 1956 -
The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
David Shields
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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
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I do not think it feasible to examine the phenomenon of hatefulness without being hateful.
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As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.
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Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.
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In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to let us off that easily. It's a kind of very mild payback for the last 500 years.
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If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.
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That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.
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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.
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I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.
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We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.
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When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
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