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"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."
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"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."
"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."
"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"
"The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too."
"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."
"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."
"After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided."
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