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Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 23, 1876 - March 11, 1944

Topics

Work Hard Work You Understand Hard

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

Job Story Try Audience Tell Dynamic

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

Me Night Suits You Late Guy

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.

Stanley Hauerwas

History Experience Sacrifice War

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

Steven Spielberg

Friend Mother Me Remember Hands Up

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Robert Browning

God Soul Religion Stand Earth Sure

What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

New York Growing Up Remember Fast Up

Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street!

Men Door Feet Know Sometimes Street

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates

Memory Language Blood Without Linked

I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.

Family Girl Hope People See Average

I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.

Love Home Today Fun Parents People

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

People Movies Write Up Different

I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.

Body Still Insecurities Younger Had

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