Joe R Lansdale Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor. – Joe R Lansdale Bloch Quotes Horror Quotes Humor Quotes Mixing Quotes Robert Quotes Taught Quotes I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote ‘Savage Season,’ and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with ‘Cold in July,’ and I wanted to give it another go. Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
Rick Pitino One thing I’ve learned to do with my age, I really don’t look ahead. For years, I’ve been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it. – Rick Pitino
Lev Yilmaz One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well. – Lev Yilmaz
Gale Sayers Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. – Gale Sayers
Dolores Huerta Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning. – Dolores Huerta
Jimmy Connors Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do. – Jimmy Connors
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