You can only close if you opened.

We got some baskets in close and that opened up things on the outside. We came out of the gate strong, something we haven't been able to do much this year.

It was just as close to Castleberry as it was to W.S. Neal and Castleberry had a very good basketball coach, ... I was into sports and loved basketball. They didn't have a football team. I was an above average student in a class of 19. I was able to get an academic scholarship to Jefferson Davis Junior College when I graduated in 1970.

I've never been that close to gunfire.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye... On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes; there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there.