"Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages.Â Youâ€™ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive."

-- Peter Golenbock

#Character Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Purple Quotes

“I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2007). “Holy Smokes: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.61, Penguin
“There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.”
“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”
“I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.”
“I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.”
“[People saying to me] "You look taller on TV." I get that all the time.”
“SEO is a race, not a sprint.”
“I love a really good storyline.”

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