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John Thorn Quotes

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: April 17, 1947

Topics

Baseball Game Young Watching Days

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Political Army Go Know Bright She

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

Work Different Use About Colours

I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.

Animation Out Take Started Off Just

I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

Mary Steenburgen

People Growing Up Stupid Thought Go

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.

Juan Pablo Montoya

Respect Simple Problem You Race Got

I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

Child Believe Born I Was Born

I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.

Father Escape Movies Boy Always

You get the initial script, and then things sort of change here and there, but the whole thing is this sort of mushy collaboration, which I love.

Kelly Marie Tran

Love Change Collaboration You Here

Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we'd look away and stop feeding her empire.

Look Stop Fame Why She Empire

'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.

Family Thought Secrets Intelligent

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Power World Nothing Sorrow Being

If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

Catherine Martin

History Long You Go Island Will

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