You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.
When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.
I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'
I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.
The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.
Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.
I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.
There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.
Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.
Ladies and gentleman, Tim said. May I present to you, our son, Jason Grant!
Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.
There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.
