Steve Rushin Quotes

When should a man stop wearing sports jerseys? When the buttons of his White Sox top finally pop, like rivets on a distressed ocean liner? When the pinstripes of his Yankees shirt have grown wider at the midsection than at the top, as the longitudinal lines on a globe?

Steve Rushin

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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

Jo Brand

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When my last relationship broke up, I bought a house one door along from my ex so that our daughter could continue to see as much of both of us as possible. This seems to me eminently sane and civilised.

John Niven

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The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

John Lone

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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Ang Lee

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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

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The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

John Scarlett

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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Simon McBurney

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Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.

Rocky Carroll

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Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.

Jojo Moyes

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It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

Anohni

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There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Phil Klay

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