Donald E. Westlake Quotes
It was apparent ... that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I don't drink coffee.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I am a journalist.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.
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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
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There are guys you play against or with that you hit who were strong, and then there are guys whose muscles are made of steel. That was Ronnie Lott.
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It was apparent ... that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.
