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Bill James Quotes

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 5, 1949

Topics

Baseball Think You Know Way Mean

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

Joe R. Lansdale

Time Way Up Successful Being Found

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

John Kricfalusi

Family Today Looking You Aim High

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

Jean-Michel Jarre

Technology Perfection Reality Always

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

Success Truth Fire Me World Trail

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Me Doctor Lawyer Think Movies Film

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

Life Children Art Bath Bubble Awe

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

Fear Losing Mind Me World Think

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

Change Art Value People Thought You

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

Business Technology Employees Doing

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

Father Me Remember Three Box Half

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.

End Pressure You Everyone Because

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Rules Creating Way Set PC

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