Stacey D'Erasmo

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

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Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England...

Gabriel Batistuta 21

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There's always a feeling of revenge any time you lose against any team.

Aymeric Laporte 24

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I don't like the word 'revenge' so much in football.

Jupp Heynckes 26

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I was telling my manager that I wanted to quit the industry because the synopsis I was receiving from filmmakers all felt like a lie. Yes, they were...

Amala Paul 23

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Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a...

Michael Wolff 20

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The way I work is I'll basically become kind of fixated on a very stripped-down genre, like revenge or something like that, and just start layering on...

Panos Cosmatos 25

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Every time I hear a revenge story, I run the opposite direction. I just don't think such stories have any novelty value.

Suniel Shetty 12

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Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.

Leo Sayer 23

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Jason Voorhees was a kid who was picked on at summer camp, and Michael Myers was someone vilified by his own family. I think that's why gay people...

Sharon Needles 23

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The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression...

Ivan Moody 18