Donald E. Westlake Quotes
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since.
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Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
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I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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I am a consummate metaphor addict.
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A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
