Bruce McCall Quotes

• I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

  Bruce McCall

  Cartoon, Admirer, Because I Can

  "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

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• He aquí una forma sencilla de abolir la imagen elitista y excluyente del golf y convertirlo en un deporte verdaderamente americano: deshacerse de esa chaqueta verde de Brooks Brothers de los años cincuenta y hacer que el ganador del Masters se ponga algo de, digamos, cuero negro con muchas tachuelas metálicas.

  Bruce McCall

  Sports, Brother, Golf

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• No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

  Bruce McCall

  Dog, Golf, Men

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

  Bruce McCall

  Divertido, Escuela, Humor

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• Es fácil ver el golf no como un juego en absoluto, sino como el sueño febril de un ministro presbiteriano del siglo XIX con cara de suero de leche, en el que el exorcismo se logra a través del ritual y la automortificación.

  Bruce McCall

  Dream, Golf, Self

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• You can parody almost anything.

  Bruce McCall

  Parodia

  "Tuning In to the Absurd". New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Phrases, Shut Up

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

  Bruce McCall

  Golf, Celebrate, Streisand

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