"There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Katie Uhlaender

#Baseball Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Father Quotes

“It isn't what you leave your children but how you leave them.”
“Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even greater respect for Louis Armstrong than before”
“Iâ€™ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.”
“To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.”
“I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.”
“You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.”
“You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.”
“You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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