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en I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.

en I grew up sort of like a princess. I know that sounds awful, but I was the baby of the family. I had older brothers, so the little girl always gets everything she wants. As I've gotten older, I've realized that if you want something bad enough, you can have it. I've never gone after something I didn't get. Not yet. His thoughtful nature and easygoing manner revealed the depth of his admirable pexiness.

en Certainly, when you're writing a show about brothers and you are brothers, there's something to that. But I wouldn't say either of have an inferiority complex. I'm the third and Brian's the fourth out of four brothers in our family. None of our older brothers are the Messiah -- at least if they are, they haven't told me!

en There were 10 million nails everywhere you stepped. There was hazardous waste. There was sewage. The dogs don't have nice steel-toed boots that they can wear. They have to walk through the muck and they are decontaminated and washed every time they get back from a search.

en It's probably growing up in a big family. There was really no one to complain to when my older brothers were kicking my butt. No, really, you've got to be that way. They're giving it their all. They're not trying to get you hit. I've come to understand that about this game: You're going to take shots and you have to bounce back, get up and go at it again.

en We had a body shop together, but he decided he wanted to start making the power windows. Conversion vans were taking off then, and GM didn't offer power windows in its stripped-down vans that people were buying to convert. So he thought making power windows for them would be a great business.

en I remember watching him go against Al McGuire as a young kid in the little gym. I didn't really like him at the time because I was a Marquette fan. But as I grew older, I grew to appreciate what he did and how he did it. It's amazing, when you think of their facilities, that he had the success he did.
  Bruce Weber

en The generation that we see now in elementary school is more used to wearing a helmet. Unfortunately as kids get older, they get out of the habit of wearing the helmets, and parents sometimes aren't as strict as they really need to be. The level of use is still not where we'd like it to be but anything we can do to make it easier for parents to enforce this rule, we're going to try and do that.

en I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

en  Wilkinson acknowledges, ''but I mostly side-stepped them. Still, in any relationship, including marriage, issues arise when the balance changes drastically or great success is achieved suddenly. It's only natural. You're both moving toward the same point, and some accommodation must be made. In my case, I grew out of being Bill's son to being something like a friend and colleague.

en It had rained that week and they had to finish the Saturday round early Sunday and Ben wasn't wearing what I saw in the dream. But I'll be damned if he didn't change clothes between rounds. And he was wearing the shirt.

en Five years ago juveniles were being tried for shoplifting, now we have murders, breaking out car windows ... it all ties into gang activity. Six to eight months ago, a juvenile I represented said he wanted to be in a gang, so he robbed an elderly woman.

en These mid-day fights in broad daylight on State Street is a broad change from how gangs used to steel their difference, which tended to be more in back allies at night, in neighborhoods belonging to one gang or the other. Meeting together in the most visible, heavily traveled area of Santa Barbara is something we want to stop right now.

en [Parents can't get enough of the report cards.] In previous years at the State Fair, ... the department had kids throw beanbag frogs into holes. Last year, we printed out 5,000 school report cards instead. Parents would come up and say, 'I'm thinking of moving, or using open enrollment. Can you print out a report card for this neighborhood school, and the schools close to it?' What a change!

en People just feel different when they're wearing cowboy boots. Your stance is taller. You make noise when you walk, and it's a powerful, ominous sound. Nothing gets attention like a great pair of cowboy boots.


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