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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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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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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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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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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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
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I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.
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As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.
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I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models.
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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.
