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I guess if I had to attribute it (the turnaround), it was just the fact that the kids have done what we've asked them as a coaching staff and some of those things have turned out to their benefit, which has helped their confidence. The kids have responded very well and they've worked very hard.


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GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
GARY SHTEYNGART Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th...
GARY SHTEYNGART I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati...
GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph...
GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
GARY SHERMAN The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ...
GARY SHERMAN The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t...
GARY SHERMAN Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu...
GARY SHERMAN One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film...
GARY SHERMAN