"It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me."

-- Al Kaline

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“People can put their best poems straight onto the web.”
“I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.”

Source : "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.
“Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.”
“When you write, itâ€™s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.”
“All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?”
“But we donâ€™t remember those lives. We canâ€™t read our diaries.â€™ â€˜It doesnâ€™t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.â€™ â€˜But can we choose that?â€™ â€˜I donâ€™t know.â€™ â€˜Weâ€™re Dead. Can we really choose anything?â€™ â€˜Maybe. If we want to bad enough.”
“The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.”
“Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting”

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