Word: quits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yankee closer told beat writer Jack Curry of the New York Times last week that he would quit baseball in four years to pursue a higher calling--becoming an evangelical minister...
...Monday, Danny Ainge made a decision similar to Rivera's. In his fourth season as coach of the Phoenix Suns, Ainge quit because he felt that his coaching duties were detracting from his relationship with his wife and children...
...Stephan had a passion for boxing,' she said. 'He really loved boxing from the time he was a little kid, 5 years old--loved it with all his heart. Whenever I talked to him about stopping, he said, 'Stop asking me to quit. I've never been in jail. I've never done drugs. Let me pursue my passion...
That request left Mann "beyond not interested." To get out of her contract, she had to buy back her own master tapes. "I had had it," she explains. "Now I understand what Prince went though. I was ready to cheerfully quit the business forever." Fortunately, this is when Paul Thomas Anderson stepped in. While writing the script for Magnolia, Anderson heard a tape of some of Mann's new songs and liked them so much he began building characters around them. Claudia, the lonely cokehead played by Melora Walters, was inspired by the song Deathly. "Everything [Aimee] seemed...
...have to be a surgeon. You can't just teach; you have to be a professor. You can't just work for a hot new Internet company; you have to go out and start your own. You can't even be just an investment banker; you have to quit when you're 30 and write the great American novel...