Jane Leavy Quotes

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Jane Leavy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1951

Topics

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I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

John Forsythe

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Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

AnythingSeenLikeBeforeAnybody

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Michael Bolton

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It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

John Rowland

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I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

Rodman Philbrick

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No one should be allowed to purchase more than two firearms a month.

Dick Durbin

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When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

Dennis Banks

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It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

Dennis Bergkamp

FootballTalentYouYoungClubWell

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

William Shatner

MePoliticalMoreNeedScene

Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

Peter Jackson

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One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

Scott Ritter

FamilyIntegrityMyselfPatriotism

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'

Richard Dawson

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