Off Screen Quote #15 (Itzhak Perlman)

The great classical musican and conductor Itzhak Perlman was in Cedar Falls, Iowa last night to perform a fundraising concert for polio research. (He himself contracted polio as a child and uses crutches or a scooter to get around.) The violinist has played around the world and on many film scores including his work as [...]

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Off Screen Quote #14 (Jeremy Rifkin)

I don’t know much about Jeremy Rifkin other than Time Magazine called him ”the most hated man in science,” but I found this quote interesting;
“The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the [...]

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Off Screen Quote of the Day #13 (Ed Thomas)

Since I wasn’t able to go to the Aplington-Parkersburg game last night I thought I’d drive out this morning and see the what remnants were left behind from the first ever high school football game from Iowa to be broadcast on ESPN. The only activity was a couple joggers running around the track.
The only hint [...]

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Off Screen Quote #12 (Kelly Slater)

It seems like there’s been quite a few movies in the last couple years that deal with the changing of the guard from older to younger. And as the boomers start to retire I’m sure that theme will become more popular. One of the great lessons I learned playing sports into college is how every [...]

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Off Screen Quote #11 (Kanye West)

“Fame is like cigarettes with no surgeon general warning. It destroys most people as it did to the true and only King of Pop. We exploit ourselves and eat our own egos ‘Till there is nothing left.”
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Off Screen Quote #10 (Natalie Goldberg)

Yesterday I quoted Natalie Goldberg who in her first book wrote about the bliss of writing, but  a few years later she added this:
“I have not seen writing lead to happiness in my friends’ lives. I’m sorry to say this, I, who fifteen years ago published a book telling everyone to grab their notebooks and [...]

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Off Screen Quote #9 (Natalie Goldberg)

I sometimes write on the inside cover of books where and when I bought the book. Inside Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones I have written, “Georgetown, CO, 9/2000.” Once upon a time there was this wonderful little bookstore in Georgetown, Colorado that was the perfect stop between Denver and the Vail/Breckenridge area. The bookstore [...]

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Off Screen Quote #8 (Ed McMahon)

Ed McMahon played many roles as a spokesman and announcer in a show biz career that spanned more than 60 years.  McMahon, who died yesterday, was best known as the sidekick for Johnny Carson for more than 30 years on The Tonight Show. His trade mark  “Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny” has not been forgotten and probably never [...]

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Hemingway on Writers, Critics and Slop

The first time I read a book by Ernest Hemingway I was a junior in high school. I didn’t chose to do a report on him because he was a literary giant but because The Old Man and the Sea was so thin. In about the time it takes Melville to explain whale blubber in [...]

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Off Screen Quote #7 (Jack Nicholson)

“You can’t handle the truth!”
                       Jack Nicholson’s character in A Few Good Men 
                       Voted as #29 in AFI’s 100 Movie Quotes in 100 Years. 
 
The truth is at this place in time the Los Angels Lakers [...]

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