Will Carroll
Will Carroll
Will Carroll is a sportswriter specializing in the coverage of medical issues, including injuries and performance-enhancing drugs. Carroll's "Under the Knife" column appeared on Baseball Prospectus for eight years during his stint there as a senior writer, and he also contributed to the site's radio efforts as well as the Puck Prospectus spin-off site. He is the author of two books on sports-related medical topics. Carroll has no formal medical training...
fame famous people
Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
turnaround
'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.
grotesque movies slasher
Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.
key
Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.
harms
You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
movies walked
I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.
afraid fall fear jump keys pocket subway walk
My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?
charles genius robert sets skill work
Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.
hard-work use profit
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
eras virtue old-fashioned
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
egalitarianism america doubt
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
independence looks today
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
running teaching ideas
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
socialism approach
We approach closer and closer to socialism.