"I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers."

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Source : "ESPN's Bill Simmons on His Mini-Empire, Why Hollywood 'Sucks' and Why He Won't Write about Sandusky (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

Bill Simmons

#Sports Quotes #Impact Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”
“What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing.”

Source : "Michigan's own Dax Shepard discusses his new film 'Hit and Run'". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. August 21, 2012.
“It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.”

Source : "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.
“A fact is not a truth until you love it.”

Source : Shelby Foote, William C. Carter (1989). “Conversations with Shelby Foote”, p.248, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.”
“A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.”
“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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