Bill Shankly (1913-1981)

Bill Shankly

William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football (soccer) manager.

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Quotes·Quotations by Bill Shankly

Football (Soccer)

@ A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Quoted by John Toshack in Kevin McCarra, "How Benítez built Liverpool," The Guardian (2006-01-21)

@ At a football club, there's a holy trinity – the players, the manager and the supporters.
"Bill Shankly: Life, death and football", The Guardian (2009-10-18)

@ Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death!' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'.
An interview on a Granada Television chat-show, hosted by Shelley Rohde on Wednesday 20th of May 1981,

¶ Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

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@ I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
From his autobiography It's More Important Than That (1976), discussing the period after his retirement

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M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)

M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Two volumes of her journals and correspondence came out shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked: "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."

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Quotes·Quotations by M. F. K. Fisher

Food

¶ Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

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W. C. Fields (1880-1946)

W. C. Fields (1880-1946)

William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880[1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.[2] Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women.

The characterization he portrayed in films and on radio was so strong it was generally identified with Fields himself. It was maintained by the publicity departments at Fields' studios (Paramount and Universal) and was further established by Robert Lewis Taylor's biography, W.C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes (1949). Beginning in 1973, with the publication of Fields' letters, photos, and personal notes in grandson Ronald Fields' book W.C. Fields by Himself, it was shown that Fields was married (and subsequently estranged from his wife), and financially supported their son and loved his grandchildren.

However, Fields' friend Madge Evans, an actress, told a visitor in 1972 that Fields so deeply resented intrusions on his privacy by curious tourists walking up the driveway to his Los Angeles home that he would hide in the shrubs by his house and fire BB pellets at the trespassers' legs. Some years later, Groucho Marx told a similar story on his live performance album, An Evening with Groucho.

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Quotes·Quotations by W. C. Fields

Attitudes

¶ I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

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References

[1]^ "Conflicts over the true facts of W.C. Fields' life begin at the moment he was born. His original biographer, Taylor, even got this wrong, dating his birth at 9 April 1879, which would have made him an authentic bastard, as his parents were only married on 18 May of the same year. According to family lore, the Great Man was born on 29 January 1880". Louvish, Simon Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields. Faber & Faber, 1999. ISBN 0-393-04127-1 p. 28.
[2]^ Obituary Variety, January 1, 1947, page 46.

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