In the summer of 1963, my second with 'Sports Illustrated,' Jerry TAX, the basketball EDITOR, got the Celtics' Frank Ramsey, the NBA's first famous SIXTH man, to do a piece for the magazine revealing some of the devious little TRICKS of his trade. Things like surreptitiously holding an opponent's shorts - nickel-and-dime STUFF.
Read MoreI always swore I would NEVER WRITE a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily WRITTEN and LOVELY and not too revealing. I went to her book LAUNCH and met her editor who said 'why don't you think about it? You can do it however you want, based on your characters or you.'
Read MoreThat is the THING about being a WRITER; your subject matter MAY not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing personal and editorialized INFORMATION about them.
Read MoreWhat happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of GUY like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those GUYS, but I never had the nerve to GET up and do it because singing seems so PERSONAL and intimate to me. It was too revealing.
Read MoreI think he could WIN, ABSOLUTELY. I think he could win because there's Trump SUPPORTERS out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a SCARY prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president.
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