Broderick Crawford Quotes
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
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I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.
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We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
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Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
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Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
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You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.
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My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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The entrepreneurial struggle is the same at basically every stage in the sense that there's maybe slightly less risk but strategic issues are generally always the same. Now there's so much existential risk from another company either being able to compete or to disrupt you in the same way you're disrupting somebody else, an entrepreneur needs a real steady partner who has the ability to start working with them in the Seed or the A and be credible and value-add with strategic advice, and just be backstopped by so much capital that you can do any growth round or even a public round.
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While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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I'm a lousy reader.
