Max Beerbohm Quotes
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
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When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.
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Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.
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I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.
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I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.