I need to hear a character talk before i can really write them. I've worshipped all the major religions and most of the minor ones. Youkno vishne brahma, whatever i don't have in front of me. There's never been a ball player slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career. Making love is like hittin a baseball. When i learn that, i give jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The lord laid too much guilt on me. And then i tor dancan, isidore dunkan.
Ron Shelton is an Academy Award–nominated writer and director, former shortstop for the Bluefield Baby Birds, and author of a humdinger of a new memoir called "The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham — Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit." On the show today: How Ron sold the movie before he had a story, wrote the script without a plan, played ball with Kevin Costner, and got directorial pointers from Susan Sarandon.
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