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Jane Leavy Quotes

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sports Art Football Medical Practice

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

Admit Want Falling Cliche

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

Sophie Kinsella

Need Turn Up Books Adore Them

There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'

Michael O'Keefe

Words Wedding Said Three Answer

My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish.

Life Music Style My Life Puerto Rico

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

Relationship Parents World View Own

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

Balance People Tough Pressure You

Being an iconic food company can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a curse if, amidst change, you maintain the status quo. It is a blessing if you leverage the change coupled with capability to seize new opportunities.

Denise Morrison

Change Blessing Food Opportunities

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Fool Always Who He His Fellow

Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes.

Pedro Pierluisi

Tax Puerto Rico Taxes Pay Out Range

Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him.

Childhood Man Me Society Hurt Poor

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

Trying Play Both Ways Ways Both

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Me You Look Sometimes Say Bright

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