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Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

~David Shields

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My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.

~David Shields

Topics: About Association Bad Basketball Being Fantasize Gary Guard He Know Me Most National Notorious Only Particular Point Point Guard Pretend Really Who

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The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

~David Shields

Topics: Animal Apology Ethos Impulses Our Ruling Seattle

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I'm a sucker for sports movies.

~David Shields

Topics: Movies Sports Sucker

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The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

~David Shields

Topics: Any Becomes Beyond Earth Economic Existence Here Itself Life Movie Necessity Physical Praise Song Sports Striving

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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

~David Shields

Topics: Body Good Intersection Movies Often Politic Private Public Sports Very

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I do not think it feasible to examine the phenomenon of hatefulness without being hateful.

~David Shields

Topics: Being Examine Feasible Hateful Phenomenon Think Without

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As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.

~David Shields

Topics: Autobiographical Breaks Embarrassing Fragments Gets Intimate More Work

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Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

~David Shields

Topics: Along Art Lines Lives Narrative Nature Our Our Lives Therefore Very

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In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to let us off that easily. It's a kind of very mild payback for the last 500 years.

~David Shields

Topics: About America Beholden Black Easily Else Kind Last Let Us Mild Nba Nowhere Off People Us Utterly Very White Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1956

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