Will Leitch
Will Leitch
William F. "Will" Leitchis a writer and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a senior editor at Sports on Earth, a contributing editor at New York, critic at The New Republic, culture writer for Bloomberg Politics, contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Fast Company and Slate; and has published four books, Catch, a novel, Life as a Loser, a memoir, God Save The Fan, a book of sports essays, and Are We Winning?,...
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Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.
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All parties benefit from the clarity the deal provides.
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You might think anybody who was preparing something to go to the president would already have taken care to see that it was perfect.
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This is not a plan cooked up by executives of the company to feather their own nests.
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No slowdown in the U.S. was visible in those figures. The sales growth rate in both volume and price exceeded my expectations.
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Kids get to that sort of Y in the road where if they are ready to go to college, they have to make some decisions. It's whether their skating offers them a future or whether they should go to college.
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I was a little sketchy, ... I was the first American to go over and do this and if it's my body having surgery, I'm going to worry. I couldn't understand why in the U.S. it took months to recover and she was telling me I'd be back in days. I thought, 'There's no way. It's not possible.' Even my orthopedic surgeon was like, 'Seven to 10 days? I don't know about that.'
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He understands that this is a different kind of process, and he's committed to working through it. That doesn't necessarily mean he enjoys every part of it, or that he is taking anything for granted.
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He has the ability to bring other justices with him. He has the real potential to be a leader on the court, in the sense of building camaraderie and coalitions for various results.
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Look, I have no interest in this, ... I don't know Donovan. What he does doesn't affect me, but as an athlete, I have to say if you need surgery and you don't have this done, you're cheating yourself. Fly over there and be done with it.
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I remember the day before the surgery, I was walking down the hall with a guy from a premiere league over there,
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If you asked him who he'd like to be a model of, one of the judges he'd say would be Henry Friendly. John is somebody with quite conservative instincts, but who is very faithful to law, precedent, logic and argument.
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By no means are we out of it but we've got to turn these games around. This is the playoff mentality; right now, if the season finished now we'd be out of the playoffs. So obviously we're going into every game with that mentality of winning three points.