"I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Rachel Griffiths

#Baseball Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Double Standard Quotes

“A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media
“TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.”
“As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.”
“What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.”

Source : "Fooling with Words (Part One)". billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.
“The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.”
“The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.”
“Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.”

Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company
“I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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