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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not che

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and its all different. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Im fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies. – Sean Connery

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I really unfortunately dont have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other peoples movies and I think thats the way to do it. – Lizzy Caplan

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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two peoples maps will be the same. – Mary Schmich

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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldnt do it, but I dont love the theater as much as I love movies. – Zoe Kazan

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. – Lord Byron

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Writing is a communication. – Theodore Sturgeon

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